What Are The Consequences Of The Dominican Republic And Haiti: Consequences Of Haiti?
Dominican Republic and Haiti: Consequences of the regularization process
The island of Hispaniola, which Dominicans share with Haitians, is considered to be the cradle of blackness in the Americas. It was one of the first territories that colonizers brought African slaves to labor. Since then, there has always been a dispute between the two sides of the island. One side defending the ideology of European heritage while the other side stands to beliefs and practices of African descendants. There has always been a clear distinction, culture shock, different traditions and beliefs due to the divergence of ideologies that each country pursues. Dominican Republic is one of the most typical cases where a country generates, simultaneously, emigration and immigration. Apart from being a country of about 10 million people with a weak economy that has led to the exit and establishment of communities of millions of Dominicans in other parts of the world, particularly the United States and Spain, its insertion in the global market, openness to foreign investment and the …show more content…
Parallel to this, Dominican Republic shares the island with Haiti, the poorest nation in the Americas, which received a massive illegal migration, a result that could have been anticipated under almost all modern theories on trends in transnational flows of people. The Haitian presence in the Dominican Republic has constituted one of the most contentious social and political issues throughout Dominican history These characteristics have been a challenge for economic, border and addressing legal immigration to Dominican territory, so the state has been forced to rethink and strengthen regulatory aspects, from the constitutional provisions on the conferral of Dominican nationality to structuring a properly regulated the immigration legislation, including all matters relating to the regularization and naturalization of foreigners. The two major sides of the Dominican-Haitian immigration
The island of Hispaniola, which Dominicans share with Haitians, is considered to be the cradle of blackness in the Americas. It was one of the first territories that colonizers brought African slaves to labor. Since then, there has always been a dispute between the two sides of the island. One side defending the ideology of European heritage while the other side stands to beliefs and practices of African descendants. There has always been a clear distinction, culture shock, different traditions and beliefs due to the divergence of ideologies that each country pursues. Dominican Republic is one of the most typical cases where a country generates, simultaneously, emigration and immigration. Apart from being a country of about 10 million people with a weak economy that has led to the exit and establishment of communities of millions of Dominicans in other parts of the world, particularly the United States and Spain, its insertion in the global market, openness to foreign investment and the …show more content…
Parallel to this, Dominican Republic shares the island with Haiti, the poorest nation in the Americas, which received a massive illegal migration, a result that could have been anticipated under almost all modern theories on trends in transnational flows of people. The Haitian presence in the Dominican Republic has constituted one of the most contentious social and political issues throughout Dominican history These characteristics have been a challenge for economic, border and addressing legal immigration to Dominican territory, so the state has been forced to rethink and strengthen regulatory aspects, from the constitutional provisions on the conferral of Dominican nationality to structuring a properly regulated the immigration legislation, including all matters relating to the regularization and naturalization of foreigners. The two major sides of the Dominican-Haitian immigration