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Environmental Migrants: Haiti
Alessandro Grassani

Environmental Migrants: Haiti

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Nov 26, 2015
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Feb 09, 2022
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A view over Port au Prince. The extreme vulnerability of the country to natural disasters has triggered internal migration waves from rural to urban areas. Port-au-Prince, half of whose residents were not born there, is the main destination for the thousands of environmental migrants moving around the country each year. Haiti, Port au Prince. 2015.
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A man walking to his village through Savanne Dèsolèe, considered to be the largest desert area of the country. In the background, one sees deforested mountains.
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Drought in the so-called North Ouest, surrounding the village of Magasins, in the North Ouest province.
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Drought in the North Ouest province.
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Makendy photographed while smoking outside his house .
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A view over Port au Prince.
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Nadie outside the shelter where she lives together with her family in the village des Rapatriés.
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A boy walking through the flooded landscape at Rapatriès.
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A woman standing next to her house in the flooded landscape at Rapatriès.
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Soil erosion and deforestation are incredibly hard to reverse, and especially in a short time frame. Meanwhile, the land becomes more and more vulnerable to disaster. The future is uncertain for these lands.
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