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Dominican Republic Emigration and Immigration (view source)
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:*Some converted '''Sephardic Jews from Spain''', part of early expeditions | :*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 | :*Jewish migrants coming from the Iberian peninsula and other parts of Europe in the 1700s | ||
*In the 20th century, many Arabs (from '''Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine'''), '''Japanese''', and, to a lesser degree, '''Koreans''' settled in the country as agricultural laborers and merchants. | |||
*The '''Chinese''' companies found business in telecom, mining, and railroads. | |||
*The Arab community is rising at an increasing rate and is estimated at 80,000. | |||
*In addition, there are descendants of immigrants who came from '''other Caribbean islands, including St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua, St. Vincent, Montserrat, Tortola, St. Croix, St. Thomas, and Guadeloupe'''. They worked on sugarcane plantations and docks. * | |||
*'''Puerto Rican''', and to a lesser extent, '''Cuban immigrants''' fled to the Dominican Republic from the mid-1800s until about 1940 due to a poor economy and social unrest in their respective home countries. | |||
*'''Haiti''' is the neighboring nation to the Dominican Republic and is considerably poorer, less developed and is additionally the least developed country in the western hemisphere. In 2003, 80% of all Haitians were poor (54% living in abject poverty) and 47.1% were illiterate. The country of nine million people also has a fast growing population, but over two-thirds of the labor force lack formal jobs. Haiti's per capita GDP (PPP) was $1,800 in 2017, or just over one-tenth of the Dominican figure. As a result, hundreds of thousands of Haitians have migrated to the Dominican Republic, with some estimates of 800,000 Haitians in the country, while others put the Haitian-born population as high as one million. <ref>"Dominican Republic", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic#Demographics, accessed 13 June 2021.</ref> | |||
===Emigration From the Dominican Republic=== | |||
==Records of Dominican Republic Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Dominican Republic Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||