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Dominican Republic Emigration and Immigration (view source)
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*During the second half of the twentieth century there were three significant waves of immigration to the United States. (See above.) | *During the second half of the twentieth century there were three significant waves of immigration to the United States. (See above.) | ||
*Today, emigration from the Dominican Republic remains high, facilitated by the social networks of now-established Dominican communities in the United States.<ref>"Dominican Americans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Americans, accessed 13 June 2021.</ref> | *Today, emigration from the Dominican Republic remains high, facilitated by the social networks of now-established Dominican communities in the United States.<ref>"Dominican Americans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Americans, accessed 13 June 2021.</ref> | ||
====Dominican Republic Immigration to Puerto Rico==== | |||
*Historically, there has been very high migration between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, not only during the Taino era, but also during the Spanish colonial era up until modern times. | |||
*Many residents of Colonial Santo Domingo, now the Dominican Republic, left for Puerto Rico because of the '''cession of Santo Domingo to France in 1795, the Haitian invasions from 1801 to 1803, and the occupation from 1822 to 1844'''. | |||
*Dominican migration increased sharply after 1961 as a result of political events. | |||
*The height of modern-day Dominican immigration to Puerto Rico was from 1970 to about 2005, when the Puerto Rican economy started to decline, since then its been slowly dying down, with increasing immigration the opposite direction, '''Puerto Ricans moving to the Dominican Republic'''. Though, many Dominicans who moved to Puerto Rico, stayed and started a life there, some Dominicans (and even other Latinos/Caribbeans like Haitians and Cubans) used it as a '''temporary stop-over point to the US mainland, particularly to cities like New York and Miami'''. | |||
*Although, 2010 census estimates put the number of Dominicans living in Puerto Rico at 68,000, there are estimates that put the number as high as 300,000, with many undocumented.<ref>"Dominican Republic Immigration to Puerto Rico", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic_immigration_to_Puerto_Rico, accessed 13 June 2021.</ref> | |||
==Records of Dominican Republic Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Dominican Republic Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||