Anti-Haitian sentiment (Spanish: Antihaitianismo; French: Antihaitienisme) is prejudice or social discrimination against Haitians in the Dominican Republic.
Anti-Haitian sentiment includes prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Haitians due to their physical appearance, culture, lifestyle, and language.
Anti-Haitian sentiment can be traced back to a policy of racial segregation instituted by the Spaniards in the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (present-day Dominican Republic).
In 1844 the secret revolutionary movement called "La Trinitaria" took place and the Dominican Republic declared its independence defeating the Haitian forces.
Claims range "from several hundred to 26,000"[4][self-published source] or even "recorded as having a death toll reaching 30,000"[5] in October 1937, an event subsequently named the Parsley Massacre.
[4] In the 1996 Dominican presidential election, Joaquín Balaguer (historical leader of the populist right and former right-hand of dictator Trujillo) united in a "National Patriotic Front" with PLD candidate Leonel Fernández in order to prevent José Francisco Peña Gómez, who was adopted as an infant by a Dominican family but born to Haitian parents, from becoming President.