Migration and Vodou

About the Author:
Karen Richman is director of the Center for Migration and Border Studies, University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies, and has faculty appointments in Africana and Latino Studies. She is a fellow of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. She has worked as an advocate for refugees and immigrant workers in the United States

Using standard ethnographic methods, Richman’s work illuminates the connections among social organization, power, production, ritual, and aesthetics. With its transnational perspective, it shows how labor migration has become one of Haiti’s chief economic exports.

Karen E. Richman is director of the Center for Migration and Border Studies at the Institute for Latino Studies, on the faculty of Africana studies, and a fellow of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.