Immigrants from the Dominican Republic in the United States
August 13, 2024
Spotlight
By Brandon Marrow and Jeanne Batalova
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While immigrants from the Dominican Republic represent just 3 percent of the 46.2 million immigrants in the United States, this population is increasing significantly faster than the overall U.S. foreign-born population—growing 46 percent since 2010, as compared to 16 percent for all immigrants.
The 1.3 million Dominican immigrants in the United States represent the second-largest Caribbean foreign-born group after Cubans, and the fourth-largest Latino immigrant group after Mexicans, Salvadorans, and Cubans.
Dominican immigration to the United States was limited until the second half of the 20th century. Dictator Rafael Trujillo placed high restrictions on emigration and Dominicans’ access to visas. The political unrest and economic fallout that followed Trujillo’s assassination in 1961, and especially the U.S. military intervention in 1965, led to mass emigration among urban professionals and the middle class. Just 12,000 Dominicans lived in the United States in 1960, but the number had risen to 169,000 two decades later.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/dominican-immigrants-united-states-2024
