State of Migration Concerning the Dominican Republic 2017
For seven consecutive years, OBMICA and its associated researchers have monitored the migrations that originate in, pass through, and arrive in the Dominican Republic within the insular Caribbean context. State of Migration Concerning the Dominican Republic 2017 serves as a reference publication for public decision-makers, researchers, rights advocates, communicators, and others interested in migration issues.
This effort culminates in State of Migration Concerning the Dominican Republic 2017, a reference publication for public decision-makers, researchers, human rights defenders, communicators, and others interested in migration. The yearbook offers an overview of the main international migration events and trends of the year, highlighting the challenges and opportunities they pose for the country and for people involved in these movements.
A key innovation in the 2017 edition is a section on new migration challenges in the Caribbean, including the relationship between climate change, natural disasters, and migration, as well as migration from Venezuela to different Caribbean islands. At the national level, a major milestone was the second National Immigrant Survey (ENI-2017), which provided more up-to-date and reliable figures on immigration volumes and a fuller profile of immigrant populations and their families.
As in previous editions, the yearbook follows the evolution of the National Plan for the Regularization of Foreigners in Irregular Migration Status (PNRE) and the issue of Dominican nationality rights for descendants of Haitian migrants born in the country and affected by Constitutional Court ruling 168-13. The publication is organized into five chapters covering Caribbean migration trends, Dominican emigration, immigration flows, migration policies, and the human rights situation of migrants and their descendants.