VISA FOR DREAM

Visa for Dream

Visa for Dream

Introduction

Making up one of the biggest ethnic assemblies in the United States, Dominicans have started to carve out a location for themselves inside the American heritage countryside, but this has not arrive without its struggles. Long a disregarded few in the shaded of their more “popular” Caribbean friends of Puerto Rican and Cuban fall, Dominicans have started to make paces as a community with a distinct heritage persona, eventually pacing out of the communal shaded they have been in for the last 20 years (Matibag, Eugenio 2003). Though these paces are significant to the general development of a powerful unified Dominican community, we should furthermore note the adversities faced by numerous first and second lifetime Dominicans in the face of the integration or assimilation they face each day. The occurrence of Dominicans in the United States as a formidable ethnic assembly has its sources in the migration patterns of the late 1980s, but it is furthermore what Dominicans have finished since they have been in the United States, and how they have characterized themselves, that distinct them from other ethnic groups in the US.

Analysis

The mass migration of Dominicans to the United States started somewhat late in evaluation to that of Puerto Ricans or Cubans, but this is due in large part to the Dominican Republic's political and financial situation. Unlike numerous Cubans who escaped to the US after the increase of the communist occurrence in Cuba, or like Puerto Ricans who relish privileged rank in the United States as they, since the enacting of the Jones Act of 1917, were natural born American people, Dominicans were not permitted to journey under the Rafael Leonidas Trujillo regime. It was only the political and financial elite that was permitted this flexibility, and owned the entails to make it to the United States. Those who directed for identification or visas required to state exact causes for their journeys, and it was a luxury conceded to very few (Matibag, 2003).

After Trujillo was assassinated, and the power structure on the isle altered, journey amidst Dominicans became a likelihood, and in some situations a necessity. Eventually, under Joaquin Balaguer, all who chose to depart the Dominican Republic in seek of better inhabits were granted every opening to go. Due to an nearly relentless down turn of the country's financial and political steadiness in the mid to late 1980s, and due in part to a long recession after the so-called “Dominican Economic Miracle”, Dominicans were part of one of the biggest migratory booms of the late 20th century. This migratory rise is made apparent not just by the occurrence of Dominicans as an ethnic assembly, but from the Hispanic/Latino community in general. According to the 2004 US census there were 35, 305, 818 American people of Hispanic/Latino decent in the United States, of which 1,051,032 were of Dominican descent.

Though the number of Dominican migrants to the US between the early 1970s and mid 1980s was rather reduced, ...