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Article: Sagas, Ernesto, and Sintia E. Molina, eds. Dominican Migration: Transnational Perspectives.(Book Review)
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- International Social Science Review
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- September 22, 2005
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Sagas, Ernesto, and Sintia E. Molina, eds. Dominican Migration: Transnational Perspectives. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004. 284 pages. Cloth, $59.95.
The de facto rule of General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo y Molina from August 1930 to May 1961 brought unprecedented migration of Dominicans, principally to the United States and Spain. Not different from the Irish, Italian, and Chinese immigrants of the nineteenth century and the East European Jewish immigrants of the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries, the Dominicans tended to settle together in kindred groups in specific communities in the United States in New York, South Florida, New ...