NewsWhore
12-17-2008, 02:40 PM
The Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) and the State University of the Republic of Haiti (UH) agreed yesterday to carry out a census on Haitian immigration in the Dominican Republic over a two-year period. The information would be used to draft state policies. Franklin Garcia Fermin and Jean Vernet Henry, rectors of the UASD and UH respectively, signed the agreement.
According to Hoy newspaper, the UASD and the UH agreed that the study that is estimated to cost US$100,000 and would be financed by Action Side, include technicians, students and professors from both institutions.
The recently appointed ambassador to Haiti (and professor of Sociology at the UASD) Ruben Silie will be in charge of the investigation. He told Hoy reporter Carmen Matos that the collection of data will start next February. Silie said they will study the communities and the living conditions of the undocumented Haitians that live in the DR and also that of Haitian students and professionals that live here legally. He said that the results obtained from the census will be presented in a series of university workshops that will be open to the authorities and government and those interested in immigration.
Garcia Fermin expects the study to lead to better relations between the two nations. He said this is just a first of other research projects the UASD will carry out with the University of Haiti.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)
According to Hoy newspaper, the UASD and the UH agreed that the study that is estimated to cost US$100,000 and would be financed by Action Side, include technicians, students and professors from both institutions.
The recently appointed ambassador to Haiti (and professor of Sociology at the UASD) Ruben Silie will be in charge of the investigation. He told Hoy reporter Carmen Matos that the collection of data will start next February. Silie said they will study the communities and the living conditions of the undocumented Haitians that live in the DR and also that of Haitian students and professionals that live here legally. He said that the results obtained from the census will be presented in a series of university workshops that will be open to the authorities and government and those interested in immigration.
Garcia Fermin expects the study to lead to better relations between the two nations. He said this is just a first of other research projects the UASD will carry out with the University of Haiti.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)