Home > Economics, Development Studies > Vol 3 No 4 December 2015 Abstract 6
Haiti Is Here: Haitians in Santa Catarina, Brazil and the Concept of Emigration Syndrome
Luís Felipe Aires Magalhães, Rosana Baeninger Introduction The Haiti expressed, as few countries in the world, the success of the colonial project in Latin America and how it can mean the tragedy of a country, that is, the development of its underdevelopment: colony more prosperous in the 17th and the 18th century, it has become in America's poorest nation currently (PIERRE-CHARLES, 1990, JAMES, 2010).The slave rebellion in the country, the national control and also by the precepts of liberty, equality and fraternity, caused one of the episodes more originals of contemporary history: the Black Independence of Haiti, in 1st January 1804 (JAMES, 2010).This situation encountered, quickly, with the obstacles placed by the imperialist powers of his time, which condemned the country to a situation of complete marginalization in the international division of labor (JAMES, 2010).

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