poverty and the politics of population in Haiti
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Maternowska, M. Catherine
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- LAT 34 2006
- Thesaurus
- antropologie, armoede, gezondheidszorg, geboorteregeling, politiek, overheidsbeleid, Haiti
- Description
- Residents of Haiti—one of the poorest and most unstable countries in the world—face a grim reality of violence, lack of economic opportunity, and minimal health care. For years, aid organizations have sought to alleviate the problems by creating health and family planning clinics in the heart of Cité Soleil. .Why did this initiatives fail so spectacularly despite surveys finding that residents would like to have fewer children? Why don’t poor women heed the message of family planning, when smaller families seem to be in their best interest? In this book Maternowska argues that we too easily overlook the political dynamics that shape choices about family planning. Through a detailed study of the attempt to provide modern contraception in the community of Cité Soleil, she demonstrates the complex interplay between local and global politics that so often thwarts well-intended policy initiatives.