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Marie-Jeanne And Solange: The Impacts Of Globalization In Haiti

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This documentary focused on globalization, how it is gendered, and the impacts of globalization in Haiti. It also focused on the working conditions, violence, poverty, poor health care system, and the lack of education. The documentary is narrated through the personal stories of women like Marie-Jeanne, Solange, Frisline, etc. At the beginning of the documentary, Marie-Jeanne talked about the working conditions that workers faced while working in the factories in Haiti. The conditions that these workers are in are miserable. For example, the workers are discriminated in the sense that they do not drink the same water as their bosses who employs them. The water given to them are contaminated unlike that of their bosses. Their bosses make little to no effort when it come to the health of their workers. In the case of Marie, she had to toil under those wretched condition to send her children to school because she was denied education because of the gender discrimination and the expensive cost of school. …show more content…

Because of the socioeconomic structure and marginalization of the country's economy, more than 60% of the youth are unemployed which yield rise to violence, like theft, shootings, rape, etc. According to the documentary, children who live in Haiti can’t go to school because of how expensive it is. Also, the government provides no funding for education. As one interviewee puts it, “the Haitian government likes the pressure from other countries, the World Bank, IMF, before they can provide for their citizens, education being the most exploited

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