Dominican Argentines
Dominican Argentines (Spanish: dominicano-argentinos) are Argentine citizens of partial or full Dominican descent, or Dominican citizens who have migrated to and settled in Argentina. Although sources vary, as of 2013 were are an estimate 40,000 Dominican-Argentines, according to community organization Asociación de Dominicanos Residentes en Argentina.[1]
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 Members of the Dominican community in Buenos Aires, 2016 | |
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| Greater Buenos Aires | |
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| Roman Catholicism | |
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| Argentines · Dominicans |
Characteristics
Buenos Aires Province concentrates 30 percent of the Dominican emigrants. The rest are spread across the remaining national territory.[2]
According to the UN's International Organization for Migration, young women from the Dominican Republic began arriving to Argentina in unprecedented numbers in the 1990s as prostitutes, many of them ending up in Buenos Aires.[3]
References
- "Dominicanas en Argentina, una inmigración vulnerable". IPS Noticias (in Spanish). 6 May 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
- Dominicans in Argentina work in all sorts of enterprises Archived February 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- The globalization of sex
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