Descendientes de dominicanos constituyen el 40.5% de la población dominicana en EEUU en 2006

BOSTON The Dominican community born in the United States for 2006 represented 40.5% of the resident Dominican population in the US, according to a study by the nongovernmental organization Quisqueya Foundation.

Economists Frank Valenzuela and Héctor Frias, president and CEO of the company, noted that between 2000-2006 the Dominican-born population in the US He went from 345.914 to 589.270 people.

They said that this meant that the descendants of Dominican immigrants in US they increased in absolute terms by 243.356 people, going from 33.2% to 40.5% compared to the total resident Dominican population in the US, during the period indicated.

They reported that that represented a relative growth rate rising to 41.3% in 2000-2006. They said that if one looks at 1990, an extraordinary growth of the descendants of Dominican immigrants is observed as they increased by 392.772 people by 2006. 

They stressed that these results were obtained from the projections made reference to the results of the annual American Community Survey of the US Census Bureau, the United States, as well as major studies by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) US and Dr. Ramona Hernandez, director of the Dominican Studies Institute at City College of New York (CUNY).

They cited that the dynamics of population growth of the descendants of Dominicans to internal US territory immigrants are concentrated in New York 53.8% (242, 601), New Jersey 13.9% (81.827), Florida 11.9% (53, 650) , Massachusetts 6.9% (40.893) and Pennsylvania 2.2% (12,897), accounting for 88.8% of Dominican-born US until 2006.

 They noted that the above information reveals that Dominicans of second and third generation will be key actors in achieving the necessary social cohesion defined by ECLAC requiring the Dominican Republic in the medium and long term, especially 2050. 

They said that what is is, to design strategies to link these new generations of Dominican community abroad to promote positive synergies between the economic growth that our country needs and social equity in the context of productive modernization our economy in a globalized world.

In that regard, they reiterated the need for the country to rethink their relationship with the Dominican community abroad from a state vision by creating a governing body, macro planner and executor of public policies towards the Dominican diaspora.

They stressed that this will be possible through the creation of the Ministry or Secretariat of the Dominican Abroad, as countries have made similar to ours, Haiti, El Salvador, Mexico and Brazil.