Author: Alissa Jordan
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When Hospitals Become Prisons
This document presents the research survey portion of the Hospital ≠ Prison project, and is being sculpted into a series of recommendations that are aimed to shape public policy in Haiti concerning the treatment, welfare, and rights of Haitian patients. Abstract This report presents a research update on the collaborative investigation into the hospital detention…
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Lè Lopital Tounen Prizon
Rezim Sa se rechèch nou pou yon efò koloboratif pou etidye detansyon lopital de manman ak tibebe andan lopital ak klinik an Ayiti. Kolaborasyon sa incluye Dr Alissa Jordan, yon pòs-doktora nan Center for Experimental Ethnography (an Kreyol, Sant pou Etnografi Eksperimental) nan University of Pennsylvania (CEE), Jean-Denis Aureleus, Prezidan ak Fondatè di Association De…
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On Being Born
The time immediately following birth in Haiti is a special time. It is a time when families pull together in intimate circles of care and embrace the new life and a new mother. During the pregnancy, these families have nourished mothers and the small lives within them, and also been nourished by them. After birthing,…
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Kisa sa Vle Di “Lopital-Prizon?”
Mwen konnen e pa tout nasans, tout akouchman ki pase konsa an Ayiti. Mwen konnen ke lamize egzite. Mechanste egziste. Men andan lakou manman Ayisyen mwen an, manman adoptif mwen a, ki nan yon zòn andeyo, yon zòn ki pa rich menm, nan tout diz ane ke mwen pase fè ale vini andan peyi a,…
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Fè Pitit Ann Ayiti
Ann Ayiti, lè akouchman nan ak lè a dapre akouchman se de peryòd nan lavi fanmi ki vrèman enpòtan. Nan tan sa yo, fanmi Ayisyen yo konn reyini, yo konn anbrase nouvo lavi a ki aparèt devan yo, yo konn pran swen nouvo manman. Swen sa a komanse anvan ou akouche tou, pandan ou toujou…
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Naming the Hospital-Prison
Images of Haitian mothers giving birth, struggling between life and death is an all too familiar image to aid workers and Christaian missionaries working across Haiti. In elite fundraisers across the globe, in megachurches as well as hospital galas, it is used to pull on heartstrings, loosen checkbooks, and invoke feelings of both pity and…
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Not an Exception But a Pattern
There are connections between the reproductive injustice Haitian mothers endure as a result of medical-detention and the obstetric violence against Black and Indigenous mothers in the United States and around the world. The Black maternal and infant birth outcomes in the United States are the worst in any developed country in the world. Black mothers…
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Fich La
Le lòpital kenbe ou, ou gen yon sèlfwason pou sòti, ou gen yon sèl visa ou ka rete tann, epi sa se so lòpital la. So yo mete sou papye yo, sou fakti yo. Papye sa yo pote lank ble de ekriti dokte a, lank ble a kite mak fon nan fèy frajil yo. Tèlman…
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Receipts
If you’ve been kidnapped by a hospital, receipts are the only visa you can hope for. These fragile pieces of beige and white paper carry the heavy blue ink of the doctor’s notes. Ink so heavy it can tear through the leaf of paper like tissue. On the page are also marks from administrators. They…
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Kin Ties and Collateral
Guerlande is a nurse. She worked hard to earn a degree in nursing, in the process of her training she witnessed her superiors holding women and their babies, and she was intimately familiar with the violence this wrought in patients’ lives.” “If they go to the hospital to give birth, there are hospitals in Haiti,…