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- Title
Black women in the marketplace: everyday gender-based risks against Haiti's madan saras (women traders).
- Authors
Hossein, Caroline Shenaz
- Abstract
In Haiti, madan saras have for centuries personalised economics through a sistèm pratik that has institutionalised market operations by connecting buyers and sellers. This study - based on 77 interviews, mainly (73%) with madan saras from northern Haiti - exposes gender-based violence (GBV) towards Black women entrepreneurs, examining the views of the madan saras about their work and using the framework of Black feminist theory to contextualise their experience. Despite social awareness of the contributions of madan saras, the pervasive GBV against madan saras in business is ignored by society and policymakers, and Haitian women must contend with these risks by themselves.
- Subjects
BLACK women; VIOLENCE against women; LABOR market; RISK-taking behavior; HAITIAN economy; TWENTY-first century; ECONOMIC conditions of women
- Publication
Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation, 2015, Vol 9, Issue 2, p36
- ISSN
1745-641X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13169/workorgalaboglob.9.2.0036