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 <span style="color:DarkViolet">'''"Emigration"''' means moving out of a country. '''"Immigration"''' means moving into a country. </span><br>
 Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.
+===Immigration to the Dominican Republic===
+*Ethnic immigrant groups in the country include:
+:*'''West Asians—mostly Lebanese, Syrians, and Palestinians.'''
+:*'''East Asians, primarily ethnic Chinese and Japanese'''
+:*'''Europeans''' are represented mostly by '''Spanish whites''' but also with smaller populations of '''German Jews, Italians, Portuguese, British, Dutch, Danes, and Hungarians'''
+:*Some converted '''Sephardic Jews from Spain''', part of early expeditions
+:*Jewish migrants coming from the Iberian peninsula and other parts of Europe in the 1700s
 ==Records of Dominican Republic Emigrants in Their Destination Nations==