Migratory Notes Town Hall: Covering Haitian Migration

When: 6.24.21/ 5:30 PT/ 7:30 CT/ 8:30 ET

Featured Speakers & Participants:

• Ebony Bailey, Independent filmmaker , Mexico City / Life Between Borders: Black Migrants in Mexico
• Cristina Baussan, documentary photographer and writer, San Salvador / Port-au-Prince
• Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald
• Garry Pierre-Pierre, Haitian Times, New York
• Ralph Thomassaint Joseph, Ayibo Post Port-au-Prince/ New York
• Lauren Villagran, El Paso Times

In recent years, Haitians fleeing natural disasters, political instability and poverty have found new places to settle: Brazil, Chile, and increasingly Mexican border towns. While the United States recently extended Temporary Protective Status to 100,000 residents, that does not provide legal entry for Haitians not already in the United States. We spoke with journalists about the context and history of why people leave Haiti, growing migrant communities on the border in Mexico, as well as the pressing issues facing diaspora communities throughout the U.S.