I. Study The Caribbean Migrants Observatory (OBMICA, in Spanish) carried out a qualitative study on the impacts of COVID-19 on the Haitian migrant population and their descendants who live in border region communities belonging to the Enriquillo sub-region. The subregion is located in the southwestern part of the Dominican Republic, and comprises the provinces of Barahona, Pedernales, Independencia, and Bahoruco. Together these four provinces cover an area of 6,961.43 km². It is also one of the poorest regions in the country, with the lowest human development indi- cators (adjusted for inequality) in the country (UNDP 2013), despite the wealth it produces in terms of its contributions to national agricultural production. In October 2020, an OBMICA research team carried out 50 semi-structured interviews with people of seven different documentation profiles, all of them parents of children born in Dominican territory in the last five years. The following table provides an overview of study participants, by documentatiOn profile and gender. Table 1: Study Participants by Documentation Profile and Gender Documentation Profile Women Men Total Migrants born in Haiti who are registered in the National Regularization Plan for Foreigners (PNRE, in Spanish) 5 5 10 Migrants born in Haiti without PNRE registration 6 4 10 Dominicans of Haitian descent in Group A of Law 169-14 (with restored documents) 3 3 6 Dominicans of Haitian descent who have never had problems with their documents 3 3 6 Dominicans of Haitian descent in Group B who did not apply under Law 169-14 3 3 6 Dominicans of Haitian descent in Group B who applied under Law 169-14 (non-beneficiaries of Decree 262-20) 3 3 6 Parent of Dominicans of Haitian descent in Group B who applied under Law 169-14 and are beneficiaries of Decree 262-20 3 3 6 TOTAL 26 24 50 Research Brief: COVID-19 Impacts on Haitian Migrants and their Descendants on the Southern Border of the D.R. 13