Problems Faced by Dominican Immigrants

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In recent years, the latest census figures show that more Dominican immigrants have arrived in, and made New York City their home than any other Hispanic ethnic group. Only natives of India, Pakistan, Vietnam, China, and the Philippines have seen more of their numbers well the melting pot of New York City. USA Today provides annual figures of "21,412 US immigrants from the Dominican Republic (1995 figures)" (Page 1997 1A). The decade of the Nineties saw the immigration of nearly 150,000 natives of The Dominican Republic into New York City. The recent 2000 census figures, still being developed, showed that the non-Mexican or Puerto Rican population of New York City has increased dramatically. "The census category of 'other Hispanics or Latins' which includes Dominicans. . . -not counting Mexico- grew to 1.1 million from 763,000. a 49 percent increase. Salvo estimated that the number of Dominicans, the city's second largest Hispanic group, is 500,000" (nynews 220 1).

Since there has been a lengthy enmity among Haitians and Dominicans in their homelands, these two ethnic groups do not share any NYCV neighborhoods. There are, of course, language differences. And yet, "New York City has the largest Less English Proficiency population than any other city in the US, some 1.4 million residents" (Fix and Passel 1994 1).

Since so many Dominican immigrants have little or no education, they form the low end of the labor market. "New immigrants appear to hurt the overall l

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