mobiles, migrants and money on the border of haiti and the dominican republic
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Heather A. HorstDigital Ethnography Research Centre
RMIT University, Australia
Erin B TaylorInstituto de Ciências Sociais
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
IMTFI Annual ConferenceUniversity of California, Irvine
5 December 2012
Mobiles, Migrants and Money on the Border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic
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The Family and the Household
mobility mapsfamily
work
Bronte lives in
Pedernales, Haitian and Dominican
citizen
Alain lives in
Pedernales, only has Haitian
identification
“You are obliged to call people, and if you have to call Haiti and you have trouble talking, then you spend a lot of money. You look at your clock and it’s already dinner time, you’re going to end up not having any dinner. …The positive thing about cell phones is to be able to greet your people, to know about your most important friends. For example, you are my friend, I need to talk to you, let me call my friend to see that how you are. ‘Hi Fulano, where are you? I’m in Pedernales, sitting here and drinking a juice. I’m resting, I’m dining, I’m bathing, I’ll call you later, I send you greeting.’ I call my mother, my old woman, and I ask her how her day is going. Because these people are so far away that you can’t see with your own eyes whether they are okay or not.”
Alain, PK Study
'Plastic' Objects
States and Mobility
Work and Livelihood
Mobile money at Fonkoze
Cross-Border Arbitrage
Anse-a-Pitres, Haiti Pedernales, Dominican Republic
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