A Shattered Trust: Nomadic Displacement Communities in Haiti, Post-2010

The decisions made by displaced persons to break away from formalized displacement management are multiple and endogenous with larger societal struggles with colonialism, corruption and economic mismanagement within the country. However, in the fallout of the 2010 earthquake, two different inciting incidents greatly increased the assumed number of Nomadic Displaced Communities, as well as sparked greater desire among displaced Haitians to “go their own way” in navigating their status.