ABSTRACT
This article presents research on the economic, social, and cultural dimensions of the action of money transfer ( voye kòb ) from Haitian migrants (diaspora) residing in Brazil to families residing in Haiti. In light of the notion of reproduction strategy and through semi-structured interviews and the observation of a transnational Haitian community in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte (Esmeraldas, a city in the state of Minas Gerais), we seek to demonstrate that emigration precedes natural factors (earthquakes, for example) and retains a certain autonomy in relation to them. We also try to demonstrate that the economic activity of the Haitian community called voye kòb is a recurring act of retribution unrelated to personal financial interests, carried out amidst the strategies of social reproduction of family groups to reconvert the modes of social and economic integration in Haiti.
Haiti; Esmeraldas; Diaspora; Family Reproduction Strategies; Resource Transfers; Voye Kòb