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The 2011 Census recorded 62 298 Haitian-born people in France.<ref>"Haitians in France", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitians_in_France, accessed 13 June 2021.</ref> | The 2011 Census recorded 62 298 Haitian-born people in France.<ref>"Haitians in France", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitians_in_France, accessed 13 June 2021.</ref> | ||
===Haitians in the Dominican Republic=== | |||
*Since the early 20th century, Haitians have made up the largest immigrant population in the Dominican Republic. | |||
*After the Dominican War of Independence ended, Haitian immigration to the Dominican Republic was focused in the border area; this immigration was encouraged by the Haitian government and consisted of peasants who crossed the border to the Dominican Republic because of the land scarcity in Haiti. | |||
*The arrival of Haitians to the rest of the country began after the United States occupation of Haiti and the Dominican Republic around 1916, when US-owned sugar companies imported, annually, thousands of Haitian workers to cut costs. | |||
*After April 1937, Cuba began the deportation of thousands of Haitians; this led to the arrival of unemployed Haitians en masse to the Dominican Republic. | |||
*In the 1960s, after the fall of the dictatorship of Trujillo, Haitian immigration boomed: according to Joaquín Balaguer, 30,000 Haitians crossed the border between 1960 and 1965. During the administrations of Joaquín Balaguer, Antonio Guzmán and Salvador Jorge Blanco, in Dominican Republic, and the Duvaliers, in Haiti, the influx of Haitian laborers was continuous and was increasing. Every year contracts were signed between both countries for the importation of over ten thousand Haitians as temporary workers (although they were rarely returned to their country) in exchange for the payment of millions of dollars.<ref>"Haitians in the Dominican Republic", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitians_in_the_Dominican_Republic, accessed 13 June 2021.</ref> | |||
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