Titolo: Haitians Live Precarious Existence on DR Agricultural Plantations

Descrizione: SAN PEDRO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - MARCH 01: Kesnel Nene Pie, 18, a sugar cane worker, stands with his mother Louisa Fernandez in a room in a batey on March 01, 2012 in San Pedro, Dominican Republic. Like thousands of other youth who were born to Haitian parents inside the Dominican Republic, Kesnel has no personal identification as the Dominican government refuses to grant them citizenship or give them Dominican identification. Without identification a person in the Dominican Republic lives a marginal life without full employment, a bank account, or a mobile phone. A batey is the name given to communities that reside inside of sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic that are comprised mainly of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent. Living and working conditions inside the bateyes are often extremely impoverished, with limited access to health care, no running water or sanitary facilities and a lack of electricity. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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