A Dominican American (also Dominican-York) is any American who has origins in the Dominican Republic. (Not to be mistaken for Dominicans from the Commonwealth of Dominica).
Immigration records of Dominicans in the United States date from the late 1800s, and New York City has had a Dominican community since the 1930s. From the 1960s onward, after the fall of the Rafael Trujillo military regime, large waves of migration have thoroughly transnationa...
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A Dominican American (also Dominican-York) is any American who has origins in the Dominican Republic. (Not to be mistaken for Dominicans from the Commonwealth of Dominica).
Immigration records of Dominicans in the United States date from the late 1800s, and New York City has had a Dominican community since the 1930s. From the 1960s onward, after the fall of the Rafael Trujillo military regime, large waves of migration have thoroughly transnationalized the Dominican Republic, metaphorically blurring its frontier with the United States. In 2006, there were approximately 1.2 million people of Dominican descent in the US, both native and foreign-born.
Since the early 1960s, economic problems and political turmoil in the Dominican Republic have led to a vast migration of Dominicans to the U.S., mainly to East coast cities, particularly New York City and other places in New York; North Jersey ; South Jersey ; South Florida (Miami and Fort Lauderdale); Providence, Rhode Island; and Lawrence...
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