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Online Sources

• 1851-1980 Dominican Republic, Distrito Nacional, Santo Domingo de Guzmán, registros migratorios, 1851-1980 Dominican Republic, National District, Santo Domingo de Guzmán, immigration records, 1851-1980, index and images.
• 1921-1980 Dominican Republic miscellaneous records (República Dominicana, registros varios : COLLECTION RECORD, 1921-1980) Miscellaneous records housed at the Archivo General de la Nación in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. These records include residency permit requests, immigration tax exemption requests, passenger arrival and departure lists, and immigration-related correspondence. Also at Ancestry.com, index and images, ($).
• 1946-1971 Free Access: Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971 Ancestry, free. Index and images. Passenger lists of immigrants leaving Germany and other European ports and airports between 1946-1971. The majority of the immigrants listed in this collection are displaced persons - Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp inmates and Nazi forced laborers, as well as refugees from Central and Eastern European countries and some non-European countries.
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Choose a volume and then choose Italy under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival".

Finding the Town of Origin in Dominican Republic

If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Dominican Republic, see Dominican Republic Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.

Dominican Republic Emigration and Immigration

"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country.
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

• 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.

Records of Dominican Republic Emigrants in Their Destination Nations

One option is to look for records about the ancestor in the country of destination, the country they immigrated into. See links to immigration records for major destination countries below.

United States Emigration and Immigration Canada Emigration and Immigration England Emigration and Immigration France Emigration and Immigration Germany Emigration and Immigration Russia Emigration and Immigration Australia Emigration and Immigration

Jordan Emigration and Immigration Syria Emigration and Immigration Lebanon Emigration and Immigration Saudi Arabia Emigration and Immigration Egypt Emigration and Immigration Chile Emigration and Immigration Mexico Emigration and Immigration

For Further Reading

There are additional sources listed in the FamilySearch Catalog:

• Dominican Republic - Emigration and immigration