Outcast children of the Dominican Republic

Hundreds of children of Haitian origin are born in the Dominican Republic.

For generations, Haitian immigrants have had problems obtaining the birth certificate of their children born in this country. Then, when those children born in the Dominican Republic reach the age of having their own family, they do not have documentation proving their nationality. In the first three months of this year, hospitals registered 4, 729 deliveries of Haitian women, representing 18 percent of births in the country according to data from the National Health Service (SNS). In the province of La Altagracia, specifically in the higuey hospital 479.9 km from Puerto Principe, the deliveries are mostly of Haitian women giving birth, leaving in second place the Dominican women who have children. Although it seems paradoxical, being Higüey one of the most distant cities of the border with Haiti, it is the one that with greater influence and strength receives the effects generated by the Haitian migration, each day in growth, even after the purposes of the National Plan of Regularization of Foreigners carried out by the Government, that little has been felt here. Many of the women who have their children in the hospital of higuey live in the tourist zone of tip being a collateral effect of the Haitian migration to this area for work reasons.