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Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / Dominican Republic | | Spanish term or phrase: batey, bateyes | I would like to start a discussion on how this term is used in the Dominican Republic. My first thought was to translate it as "shantytowns" but then I thought it might have a more specific connotation. The text below is from an evaluation of health system response to the HIV epidemic in the Dominican Republic:
...se realizaron visitas de terreno con entrevistas estructuradas: 8 Direcciones Regionales de Salud (DRS), 11 Direcciones Provinciales de Salud (DPS) y 4 Áreas de Salud, 18 hospitales, 28 Unidades de Atención Primaria (UNAP), 6 UAI, 11 ONG, y 3 Bateyes. |
|  Muriel VasconcellosKudoZ activityQuestions: 520 (none open) ( 113 closed without grading) Answers: 4589
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liz askew
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| Grading comment Thanks, Liz! In fact, that's exmctly what I decided to do once I saw the answer above.
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9 mins confidence:  peer agreement (net): +5 batey, bateyes
Explanation:
I translated several videos for an American company and had to do quite a lot of research... In English-language websites they keep the Spanish words batey and bateyes. They are not simply shantytowns, but are communities of sugar cane workers and their families. Most of them are Haitian or Dominico-Haitian.
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: A Sour Taste on the Sugar Plantations -- Cohen ... Nowhere is this more evident than in the bateyes, where the Dominican epidemic .... brush have overgrown the old sugar cane fields near Batey Cinco Casas, ...
www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/313/5786/473 - Similar pages - Note this
:: Batey 8.com - ABOUT BATEY 8 This website is about the people of Batey 8 in the Dominican Republic. ... Today there are roughly 280 bateyes across the Dominican Republic, ...
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Helping a poor nation's poorest people | Lutheran, The | Find ... But it's priceless in Batey Yabacao, a tiny Dominican Republic village of sugar ... Working with six bateyes, where some 1865 people live, Procaribe uses a ...
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3942/is_199904/ai_n8841267 - 42k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
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Argentina
Local time: 02:28
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Asker: Hi! I wish I could award points to both answers. You started the ball rolling, but I did appreciate the suggestion to simply add the explanation in parentheses. It was hard to choose!
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