["To find life": migration and subsistence strategies in the Haitian peasantry]

"The objective of this article is to present briefly some results of two research projects on migration and the subsistence strategies of Haitian households. Fieldwork for these two projects were undertaken in Haiti (1982) and French Guyana (1986-1987). The methodology is mainly qualitative and the collection of life histories constitutes the main data source." The author notes that "the increasing social and economic marginalization of the peasant population, the exodus of the young labor force, and the educational and migratory strategy of parents for their children are all but a few factors which transform the traditional peasant mode of living. Given the actual state of the economy and polity in Haiti, emigration generates emigration." (SUMMARY IN ENG)