Dominican Immigrants 1960

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In the early 1960’s, Dominican immigrants began to migrate to the United States. In 1960, 12,000 people migrated to the U.S and it increased to 350,000 in 1990 and 876,000 in 2012. According to the census data, 56 percent of immigrants coming from the Dominican Republic were women. During this time, Dominican immigrants were the largest group to migrate to the United States. In 2004, there were 35, 305, 818 American citizens of the Hispanic/Latino descent in the U.S and 1,051,032 were of Dominican descent.

During the early 1960’s Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was the leader. He did not allow the Dominicans to come to America.The only people who were allowed to go were the political and economic elite. After Trujillo got assassinated, more people began to migrate to the United States. The new leader Joaquin Balaguer allowed Dominicans to migrate to America. In 1966, Dominican immigrants migrated to this country because of political and social instability at home. Some were either afraid or against the new leader rules and wanted to escape from the violence. After a couple of years, more Dominican immigrants began to migrate “because of limited employment opportunities and poor economic conditions.” …show more content…
Dominican immigrants lived in poverty. Statistics shows that they are the poorest ethnic group in the United States. They did not have any education or work skills to help them transition into an American lifestyle. They struggled with English and finding a job outside of a typical Dominican business. Most Dominicans who arrived in this country had family members already in America, so they were able to find a job working at a bodegas, home call centers, restaurant, and travel

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