State of Migration Concerning the Dominican Republic 2016
As it has done since 2011, OBMICA presents each year the results of its monitoring of migration dynamics in the insular Caribbean and at the binational level between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Prepared by OBMICA's associated research team under the expert coordination of Natalia Riveros, the 2016 edition of State of Migration Concerning the Dominican Republic offers an updated overview of regional migration flows, policy developments, and migrant rights.
State of Migration Concerning the Dominican Republic (EDM) was prepared by a team of OBMICA associated researchers under the expert coordination of Natalia Riveros and, as director Bridget Wooding notes, is the most tangible expression of OBMICA's working model. The 2016 edition, presented with a renewed design, is structured around five chapters: migration trends in the insular Caribbean; Dominican emigration; immigration flows; the evolution of migration policies; and the human rights situation of migrants and their descendants.
The yearbook offers an updated and realistic perspective on migration flows affecting the country while also providing a broader view of migration in the Caribbean and, in some cases, beyond it, including Dominican emigrants in Europe and the United States. This edition pays particular attention to the emerging regional trend of Venezuela becoming a country of emigration.
It also reviews the continued implementation of the National Plan for the Regularization of Foreigners in Irregular Migration Status (PNRE) and the debate, nationally and internationally, around migration and the right to nationality for descendants of Haitian migrants born in the country after 2010. OBMICA hopes this research effort will support the reorganization of migration governance as well as civil society monitoring and advocacy in favor of democratic consolidation and inclusive citizenship.