The research aims to describe the existence of racial prejudices towards the Haitian mi- grant population living in the investigation area. It seeks to compare four neighborhoods in the City of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, Dominican Republic, with differentiated characteristics in terms of poverty levels, in order to describe the presence of prejudice towards the Afro-Descendant Haitian population. The methodology focuses on the application of a questionnaire to heads of households rooted in the neighborhood, based on the subtle and overt prejudice scale originally designed by Pettigrew & Meertens (1995) and contextualized and adapted from Spanish versions (Gómez-Berroca & Moya, 1999; Rueda & Navas, 1996; Cárdenas, 2007). A sample of 236 participants was used. A consistency test and two factorial analyses were performed, which grouped the variables into four components. The results show significant differences in prejudiced perception of the Haitian Afro-Descendant population between the two areas. They also demonstrate the perception of familiarity and closeness to Haitian families living or making a living in the neighborhoods, which presents an opportunity for encounter and conflict reduction.
Corporán, J. L., & Gallur, S. (2023). I Hate You, But I Love You: Familiarity as a Gap for Afrodescendant Encounter in the Dominican Republic. Revista De Sociología, 38(1), 119–141. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-529X.2023.71402 (Original work published August 1, 2023)
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