Male Migration, Female Perdition: Narratives of Economic and Reproductive Impotence in a Haitian Transnational Community

Authors

  • Karen Richman University of Notre Dame

Keywords:

Gender, transnationalism, affliction

Abstract

Distant members of a Haitian transnational com
munity are creatively adapting an old reproductive afflic
tion to mediate new, arduous experiences of prolonged con
jugal separation and frustrated hopes of socio-economic
advance. Perdition (pèdisyon), meaning repressed pregnan
cy, plays out in social dramas enacted between Léogâne and
Florida, sites inhabited by impoverished migrant labour pro
ducers at home and their hopeful emissaries abroad. The dra
mas ensuing from repressed pregnancy span not only national
boundaries but also religious borders dividing Protestants from
Catholics.

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Published

2012-11-30

How to Cite

Richman, K. (2012). Male Migration, Female Perdition: Narratives of Economic and Reproductive Impotence in a Haitian Transnational Community. Anthropologica, 54(2), 189–197. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/879

Issue

Vol. 54 No. 2 (2012): Good Spirit, Good Medicine: Religious Foundations of Healing in the Caribbean

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Copyright (c) 2012 Karen Richman

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