Sonia Pierre's Impact On The Dominican Republic

Imagine having lived all of your life in a country on a plantation. This is all that you’ve ever known because your family thought that it would be better to leave their home country to go to a place with more opportunity. One day, people come to your home and tell you that you are no longer recognized as a citizen of the country that you have grown up in your whole life. This is the struggle that many Haitian people in the Dominican Republic are going through today, all because of their background. The actions that Sonia Pierre executed throughout her life greatly impacted those of Haitian lineage in the Dominican Republic, which can be traced back through her childhood, the establishment of the Movement for Dominican Women of Haitian Descent (MUDHA), and the fight that she embodied till the end of her life.
Domingue, a place of beauty and to treasure. (Crassweller 317). It was the jewel of the Caribbean. This jewel began to decay and lose its value as time went on and people leeched of the resources that were already there as more people immigrated to that area. The violence and abuse against the people left this marvel of a nation to decay into a state of submission to those with power. To try and combat this, Ms. Pierre expressed her concern about “discrimination against ethnic Haitians and related issues of nationality, due process, education and labor rights” for those who were unable to fend for themselves because of the scarcity of resources in their country (“‘Illegal People’” 30). She understood that there are all types of people and that’s ok, but what is not is oppressing people for something that they can’t