For more than five decades, New York and Miami had been the cities of choice for Haitian immigrants, who have gone on to win political offices, head powerful organizations and become leading voices on both their homeland’s turmoil, and U.S. immigration policies.
But in a shifting landscape that speaks both to the community’s changing immigration patterns and focus, another area of the country is quickly emerging as part of that expanding narrative: the Midwest.
“I was in Miami in this Uber and this guy’s like, ‘I’m moving next week to Indiana’ and he’s telling me the reason why,” Yolette Williams, the chief executive director of the community-based Haitian American Alliance of New York, recalled. “Even in my work, a lot of the people who came, the asylum seekers, were all moving to the Midwest, to cities like Indiana.”
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