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Dominican Americans

Dominican Americans

DdpbeadsDominican American is any American who has origins in the Dominican Republic. Although their emigration began in the nineteenth century, waves of migration of Dominicans in the United States emerged in the 60’s especially, after the fall of the Trujillo regime. In 2010, there were approximately 1.41 million people of Dominican descent in the US, inclusive both native and foreign-born.

Immigration records of Dominicans in the United States date from the late 19th century, and New York City has had a Dominican community since the 1930s. From the 1960s onward, after the fall of the Rafael Trujillo military regime, large waves of migration have thoroughly transnationalized the Dominican Republic, metaphorically blurring its frontier with the United States. Thus, be created Dominican communities in New Jersey, the Miami areaPhiladelphiaProvidence, Rhode Island, and Boston, Massachusetts. Smaller waves of Dominicans have gone to the metropolitan areas of Chicago, IllinoisWashington, D.C.Houston, TexasLos Angeles, CaliforniaPortland, OregonKansas City, MissouriOrlando, FloridaBuffalo, New York; and New Orleans, Louisiana. The Dominican population has similar settlement patterns to that of the Puerto Rican population.

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