Dominican Argentines Explained

Group:	Dominican Argentine
Population:	14,248 (by birth, 2023)^[1] 40,000 (by ancestry, 2013)^[2]
Popplace:	Greater Buenos Aires
Langs:	Spanish
Rels:	Roman Catholicism Vudú

Dominican Argentines (Spanish; Castilian: 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

• Immigration to Argentina
• Colombian Argentines
• Bolivian Argentines
• Venezuelan Argentines

Notes and References

1. Web site: Datos sociodemográficos por país de nacimiento . RENAPER - Dirección Nacional de Población . 15 November 2023.
2. Web site: Dominicanas en Argentina, una inmigración vulnerable. IPS Noticias. 6 May 2013. 1 February 2023. es.
3. Web site: Dominicanas en Argentina, una inmigración vulnerable. IPS Noticias. 6 May 2013. 1 February 2023. es.
4. http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/poverty/2006/11/8/19450/Dominicans-in-Argentina-work-inall-sorts-of-enterprises Dominicans in Argentina work in all sorts of enterprises
5. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/the-globalization-of-sex-1.777957 The globalization of sex