Bastien Inzaurralde and Brandon Quester: Hundreds of children roam the streets of Santo Domingo. Some are Dominican and some Haitian. Many are both. But few know how to legally prove their citizenship.

Nick Newman: The Dominican government accuses the Jesuit Refugee Service of being part of an international conspiracy to unify the island of Hispaniola.

Bastien Inzaurralde: Waterborne diseases — often the result of poor sanitation and lack of treated, drinkable water — that are a rarity elsewhere are common in Independencia, the poverty-stricken province where Batey 9 is located, near the border with Haiti.

Stephanie Snyder: Haitians without documentation are not permitted to travel more than about 100 yards into the Dominican Republic.

For the next three weeks, FCIR will publish additional stories from a series about the Dominican Republic.

Lauren Gilger: Haitian women make up a large portion of the patients giving birth in Dominican hospitals. They come because they don’t have access to hospitals and health care in Haiti, especially after last year’s earthquake.

Serena Del Mundo: The Global Fund, the world’s leading financer of programs to fight AIDS, TB and malaria, gave the Dominican Republic almost $82 million over a seven-year period for HIV prevention and treatment efforts. But that funding is expected to drop dramatically in coming years.

Whitney Phillips: While politicians in at least 14 states are arguing the merits of birthright citizenship in the U.S., the Dominican Republic is already ruling out citizenship for thousands of people.

Whitney Phillips: Mientras los políticos en por lo menos 14 estados debaten los méritos de la ciudadanía por nacimiento en Estados Unidos, en este país se niega la ciudadanía a miles de personas.

In March 2011, 17 student journalists from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication traveled to the Dominican Republic. Over their eight days reporting on the ground, their stories took them all over the country exploring immigration and borderland issues.