Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti.(Book review)

Journal of Latin American Geography | March 22, 2008| | Copyright

Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti. J. Chritopher Kovats-Bernat. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xix and 233 pp., maps, diagrs., photos, notes, and index. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3009-8).

Everyone knows that Haiti is an economic, ecological and political disaster. At least, that is how every newspaper article and television spot about Haiti seems to start. We may suspect that the truth is more complex, but few of us visit, and even fewer have worked there. The list of geographers with ...

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