Dominican Argentine
Domínico-argentinos (Spanish)
Members of the Dominican community in Buenos Aires, 2016
Total population
14,248 (by birth, 2023)[1]
40,000 (by ancestry, 2013)[2]
Regions with significant populations
Greater Buenos Aires
Languages
Spanish
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups

Dominican Argentines (Spanish: Domínico-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.[3]

Characteristics

Buenos Aires Province concentrates 30 percent of the Dominican emigrants. The rest are spread across the remaining national territory.[4]

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.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Datos sociodemográficos por país de nacimiento". RENAPER - Dirección Nacional de Población. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Dominicanas en Argentina, una inmigración vulnerable". IPS Noticias (in Spanish). 6 May 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Dominicanas en Argentina, una inmigración vulnerable". IPS Noticias (in Spanish). 6 May 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  4. ^ Dominicans in Argentina work in all sorts of enterprises Archived February 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ The globalization of sex
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