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Post-Earthquake Land Appropriations and the Dispossession of Rural Women in Haiti

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  • Marylynn Steckley
  • Joshua Steckley

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This study examines the trajectory of rural women’s labor in the wake of post-earthquake land appropriations in Haiti. Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted between 2010 and 2013, it explores gendered access to land in Haiti in both historical and contemporary contexts, paying attention to the nature of rural gender relations and how they influence women’s access to land and their roles in petty commerce. The study describes the stratification of rural market women, their lived experience, and how losing land access will affect their traditional roles as market women. Ultimately it argues that without access to land, and a paucity of available wage work, recent dispossession will intensify existing vulnerabilities for rural women and narrow their means of household production by forcing them to depend on informal market activity in their roles as machann (market women).

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  • Marylynn Steckley & Joshua Steckley, 2019. "Post-Earthquake Land Appropriations and the Dispossession of Rural Women in Haiti," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(4), pages 45-67, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:25:y:2019:i:4:p:45-67
    DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2018.1511916
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