SANTO DOMINGO. - President Leonel Fernandez today said for its importance migration has become a topic of global concern, which in his view can be a favorable agent of change and development.
He said the migration of thousands of Dominicans to the United States and other nations is a factor in the country’s economic and cultural development. “One tenth of the Dominican population already lives beyond ours frontiers," he said in his speech to inaugurate the seminar; Migratory policies and experiences in the stabilization process,” being held in the Foreign Ministry, with 25 nations taking part.
Fernandez said the remittances of more than US$3.0 billion per year from Dominicans who live abroad account for nearly 12% of the Gross Domestic Product, in addition to the migratory phenomenon’s cultural and educative impact on the country. “Our citizens who emigrate to the United States and Europe become multicultural, multilingual, essentially by learning English, and other languages.”
He acknowledged that often immigration isn’t well received and takes a long time to accept, not only from the economic crisis, but also the illegality of many of them.
The chief executive said the country has tried to design a policy to generate benefits, mainly by identifying this personnel abroad so they contribute to development. "For us in the Dominican Republic it’s about seeing migration as an asset, an instrument, a tool for national development."
Respect of rights
He recognized that since the country receives Haitian migrants, they must be regulated based on respect of labor and human rights, including a migratory work program to legalize their permanence in the country for the duration of their work contract. "There’s not reason to coexist with a situation of illegal migrants when it’s possible to document and indeed legalize them based on establishing an order in the labor market.”
Written by: xwill7, 10 Jun 2009 3:46 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
Yes... they want more USD and Euro to flow back into the island. Officials need to change their 2008 Prado for the 2009 Prado
From: United States
What about creating more jobs so that Dominicans do not need to migrate? It's sad how Dominicans have to leave their country and work as Haitians somewhere else...
Written by: BASTA, 10 Jun 2009 4:56 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
Our people have Haitian and Taino Blood so do the work and be still unless you think you are white and pure.
Written by: ateo1992 
, 10 Jun 2009 5:04 PM
From: Dominican Republic
BASTA, your comment can show pretty well how is your I.Q , and its pretty low.
first of all, theres no such thing as " Haitian blood" , and second of all not all Dominicans had ancestors from Haiti, , or from Tainos.
From: Dominican Republic, San Carlos, barrio de matatanes, aqui no invente
"He recognized that since the country receives Haitian migrants, they must be regulated based on respect of labor and human rights, including a migratory work program to legalize their permanence in the country for the duration of their work contract."
I love it when people blow smoke up my ass too Leonel.
Written by: xwill7, 10 Jun 2009 5:17 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
Basta you are wrong. Not all dominicans have H and T blood. My family tree goes far back to Spain
From: United States
xwill7, please flight right !
Written by: BASTA, 10 Jun 2009 11:19 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
Basta you are wrong. Not all dominicans have H and T blood. My family tree goes far back to Spain== African Blood!
From: United States
For centuries our region of the world took in people from all over. Now the table has turned. Emigration will be a fact of life for Caribbean nations for some time to come. The question is which nations will make the most of it...
Written by: Lautaro, 11 Jun 2009 12:06 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
Basta said: "Basta you are wrong. Not all dominicans have H and T blood. My family tree goes far back to Spain== African Blood!"
That might be so, but you are ignoring the fact that not all africans are charcoal black, specially not the ones from Argel and Morocco, the two african countries which are the closest to Spain, and whose populations are caucassian. And also the fact that Africa is the more genetically diversified continent on earth.
Written by: BASTA, 11 Jun 2009 6:21 AM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
Go back in time and your white tree turns Green and hops. And I wonder if your iq matches that 2 year old in England 159+ Duh
From: United States, OMNIPRESENT. El Cantinero de Jarabacoa. "Aguilucho desde Chiquitito"
when it comes to haitian and dominican issues i see some of the dumbest comments motivated by ignorance.
Written by: DomLon, 11 Jun 2009 7:40 AM
From: United Kingdom
"Not all dominicans have H and T blood. My family tree goes far back to Spain" so no doubt you are descended from the moors Assuming you go back 7 generations that requires 254 individuals and I doubt all of them were Spanish.
Where ever they go and whoever they are migrants must integrate and support their local community. What the President needs to do is create more jobs and a firmer economy in the DR - no one can just rely on the rich relations.
Written by: telemeco, 11 Jun 2009 7:47 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Monte Plata
Great,,,now i am also a moor decendant,,,,last time i check my bloodline are spaniard (Gaspar de Espinosa) and greek if there is black blood,,good which mean i got all the flavor too,,, i dont care,,it all good and dandy.
Written by: xwill7, 11 Jun 2009 9:34 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
Basta,
This does not really matter, we are all human, I just meant that you forgot the most important blood.... from Spain. It is the language that we speak
Written by: Lautaro, 11 Jun 2009 9:47 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
Basta said: "Go back in time and your white tree turns Green and hops. And I wonder if your iq matches that 2 year old in England 159+ Duh"
Why don't you take your own advice for once, clueless being? Most of all, why don't you take a trip to any of those places and see for your own eyes the idiocy of your beliefs? Cuz' only a retard would think that an ENTIRE CONTINENT is homogeneous on its genetic makeup.
Written by: bearcat, 11 Jun 2009 1:29 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Forced migration of your citizen because of no hope and no work is not development but an outrage. Migration traditionally robs a country of it best and makes those left slaves to the monthly check, which they spend rather than invest. Therefore the migrant can never return home and the nation has lost it best hope to grow.
From: United States
hey, flight right !
no fighting !
Written by: BASTA, 11 Jun 2009 6:19 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
the most important blood here = was Taino Dominican historian Frank Moya
Pons (1992) shows that during the period
of early Spanish colonization a process of
transculturation began whereby Taínos
mixed within the Spanish population,
together with African slaves, giving rise to
a new Creole culture. This is
substantiated historically by census
records of 1514, which show forty per
cent of Spanish men on the island had
Indian wives or concubines (Moya Pons
1992:135). Interaction between Africans
and Indians is documented in plantation
records and in descriptions of runaway
slave communities (Garcia Arévalo
1990:275). Here you are how you bleed. Who knows whom great,great granny slept with. So it seems that you Spanish did not kill all of us. Wash behind your ears well because the is a spot of Taino there!
From: Haiti
I'm really sick and tired of hearing about you second hands, wanna be Spanish. FACE IT. Like it or not, Dominicans DOES, and will always have Haitian blood in them. Remember the great invasion of 1822, by the Great Jean-Pierre boyer and also he had 10,000 freed slaves settle in the CIBAO REGION. Before you guys deny it, do some research in your history first. Most Dominicans are MULATOES. Dominicans will always be what they are. MIXED HAITIANS
Written by: BASTA, 11 Jun 2009 6:55 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
MIXED HAITIANS and Taino and African and and and Boyer was a better president than this clown that we have now. Just goes to show how silly we Dominicans are with the right to vote.
Written by: oupala07 , 11 Jun 2009 7:23 PM
From: Canada
My friend Haiti if some Dominicans want to be Tainos, let them be, history is even more patient than the turtle, it will catch up with them. Aren't the Indus denying their African roots too? It is normal for a human, when changing from a lower to a higher standard of life, to renegate everything from the past that hurts him/her. They are not ashamed of themselves, they are ashamed of us, and if we haitians do not understand that, it's because we are a bunch of denialers.
Aren't the German proud of their Dutch roots? Aren't the Americans feel the same way about their western and Eastern European ones? And so are the African Americans. Why wouldn't the Dominicans aknowledge and appreciate their Haitians roots the same way they are claiming coming from a people their ancestors wiped out? I'll repeat it again, it is because we haven't given to them something to cheer and thump their chest for.
So, let's leave them alone for now, and let's rather try to change our image.
Written by: oupala07 , 11 Jun 2009 7:43 PM
From: Canada
To achieve a the changes needed, we must sit down with them and talk business, for as I said in a another post, the Haitian/Dominican border is cash cow od 1.6 billions dollars. Haiti and the Dominican republic must make sure that this cash cow keeps milking money, and the best way to do it is to have a single market. The same way a single market has helped Mexico becoming an economic power house, a common Haitian/Dominican market will allow the two countries not only to beat the recession, but to also keep growing their economy.
From: United States, New York City
The fact is that the Dominican people have always been migrating. After just one or two generations the first creoles migrated to other parts of the Spanish empire in the Americas. During the turbulence caused by the Haitian Revolution another huge wave of migrants left the island and now we are witnessing another large migration that began several decades ago. Nothing new under the sun. What is new, though, is the relationship that the new migrants and their children have with their land of origin.
From: United States, New York City
"Dominicans will always be what they are. MIXED HAITIANS"
That is a very ignorant statement. First of all, the French weren't the only ones to introduce Africans to the island so Haiti was not the only conduit for African blood into the Dominican population. Africans in Hispaniola predated the French forays on the island by over a century and a half. Secondly, the mulatto was WELL represented in the colonial society of Spanish Santo Domingo, so much so that newly arrived Spaniards would complain that many of the priests, soldiers, and government clerks on the island were indeed mixed bloods. Moreau de St. Mery, a frog eater himself who had visited the Spanish colony shortly before the Haitian Revolution, commented on how mixed the population ALREADY was. People, pick up a goddamn book for once.
Written by: oupala07 , 12 Jun 2009 2:19 AM
From: Canada
cibaeno75,
I agree with you that the first african negroes were not Haitians but Dominicans : the first one landed in 1502 on Don Diego Colombus's Plantation, he was Christopher's brother. However, the same way, you find it necessary to keep ties with your spaniards ancestors and your indigenous population, is the same way we Haitians feel bonded to all negroes originated from the island whatever he speaks spanish or not. As a matter of fact, even if there were african negroes living as slaves in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, however, when the French started to import massively those same african slaves to their colony of St-Domingue, the French slaves swiftly outnumbered the Spanish speaking ones on the entire island, and there was a time we were more than half a million in the Western side of the island, remember.
The Haitians negroes, due to various reasons have outnumbered every local group in Spanish Santo Domingo.
Written by: oupala07 , 12 Jun 2009 2:32 AM
From: Canada
I don't see why you want to make a big fuss about it. One way or the other our blood are too much entertwined to start hating each other. Of course, we will stay as different as France is from Germany, the fact remains that they are all Franks and Germans. We in this island, however we may call it: Hispagnola, Haiti, Quisqueya or Bohio, will have no choice than to leave together, even if it is on our own corner.
We are now facing a deadly and global recession that affects our economy, it is not the time to think about national pride and ancestry, but the time to talk about business and take our people out of poverty. We are the oldest countries in the Americas, we should be the richest. Just take a look on ourselves and tell me if we have something to cheer for. You might have a few billions dollars GDP, however, you still have a long way to go, and you can't make the distance without us haitians and you know it.
So, let's talk business instead of race and ancestry.
Written by: Lautaro, 12 Jun 2009 8:19 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
I think that, instead of celebrating how much migration is contributing to the economy, we should put our energies in the search for ways to make our people not to make the choice of leaving the island, cuz' this brain drain will end up hurting us badly in the long run. Worse, not all the emigrants from third generation onwards retain the ties to the original motherland, a trend that only serve to erode the emigrant's weight in the economy of their country of origin if there's not a steady flow of new emigrants entering the group, in order to keep the ties to the original motherland alive. I know that it's of dreamers and utopians to aspire for our every family to make it on this land, but as I see things, without dreamers and utopians, humanity would have never made some of the astounding feats of the last century, such as beginning the exploration of outer space, so to speak.
From: Canada
This site is assumed spoken of migration in 2009.
But, as you are not able of following a dialogue, breaking us ears with your descendants.
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first of all, theres no such thing as " Haitian blood" , and second of all not all Dominicans had ancestors from Haiti, , or from Tainos.
I love it when people blow smoke up my ass too Leonel.
That might be so, but you are ignoring the fact that not all africans are charcoal black, specially not the ones from Argel and Morocco, the two african countries which are the closest to Spain, and whose populations are caucassian. And also the fact that Africa is the more genetically diversified continent on earth.
Where ever they go and whoever they are migrants must integrate and support their local community. What the President needs to do is create more jobs and a firmer economy in the DR - no one can just rely on the rich relations.
This does not really matter, we are all human, I just meant that you forgot the most important blood.... from Spain. It is the language that we speak
Why don't you take your own advice for once, clueless being? Most of all, why don't you take a trip to any of those places and see for your own eyes the idiocy of your beliefs? Cuz' only a retard would think that an ENTIRE CONTINENT is homogeneous on its genetic makeup.
no fighting !
Pons (1992) shows that during the period
of early Spanish colonization a process of
transculturation began whereby Taínos
mixed within the Spanish population,
together with African slaves, giving rise to
a new Creole culture. This is
substantiated historically by census
records of 1514, which show forty per
cent of Spanish men on the island had
Indian wives or concubines (Moya Pons
1992:135). Interaction between Africans
and Indians is documented in plantation
records and in descriptions of runaway
slave communities (Garcia Arévalo
1990:275). Here you are how you bleed. Who knows whom great,great granny slept with. So it seems that you Spanish did not kill all of us. Wash behind your ears well because the is a spot of Taino there!
Aren't the German proud of their Dutch roots? Aren't the Americans feel the same way about their western and Eastern European ones? And so are the African Americans. Why wouldn't the Dominicans aknowledge and appreciate their Haitians roots the same way they are claiming coming from a people their ancestors wiped out? I'll repeat it again, it is because we haven't given to them something to cheer and thump their chest for.
So, let's leave them alone for now, and let's rather try to change our image.
That is a very ignorant statement. First of all, the French weren't the only ones to introduce Africans to the island so Haiti was not the only conduit for African blood into the Dominican population. Africans in Hispaniola predated the French forays on the island by over a century and a half. Secondly, the mulatto was WELL represented in the colonial society of Spanish Santo Domingo, so much so that newly arrived Spaniards would complain that many of the priests, soldiers, and government clerks on the island were indeed mixed bloods. Moreau de St. Mery, a frog eater himself who had visited the Spanish colony shortly before the Haitian Revolution, commented on how mixed the population ALREADY was. People, pick up a goddamn book for once.
I agree with you that the first african negroes were not Haitians but Dominicans : the first one landed in 1502 on Don Diego Colombus's Plantation, he was Christopher's brother. However, the same way, you find it necessary to keep ties with your spaniards ancestors and your indigenous population, is the same way we Haitians feel bonded to all negroes originated from the island whatever he speaks spanish or not. As a matter of fact, even if there were african negroes living as slaves in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, however, when the French started to import massively those same african slaves to their colony of St-Domingue, the French slaves swiftly outnumbered the Spanish speaking ones on the entire island, and there was a time we were more than half a million in the Western side of the island, remember.
The Haitians negroes, due to various reasons have outnumbered every local group in Spanish Santo Domingo.
We are now facing a deadly and global recession that affects our economy, it is not the time to think about national pride and ancestry, but the time to talk about business and take our people out of poverty. We are the oldest countries in the Americas, we should be the richest. Just take a look on ourselves and tell me if we have something to cheer for. You might have a few billions dollars GDP, however, you still have a long way to go, and you can't make the distance without us haitians and you know it.
So, let's talk business instead of race and ancestry.
But, as you are not able of following a dialogue, breaking us ears with your descendants.