When and how does an immigrant people announce that they are staying in a place for good?

A reflection on the transition of Dominicans from immigrants to settled people, this study explores how Dominicans created communities, using physical and abstract marks of identity, to establish permanence in a land they made their own.

Through ethnography, history, statistics, and policy documents, authors Ramona Hernandez and Gregory Duff Morton investigate topics including the Dominican migratory movement, demographic growth, geographic dispersion, and the preservation and transmission of Dominican cultural legacy.

A story of collective declarations and public actions, private dreams and quiet wishes, this book is ideal reading for students of Latinx Studies, Migration Studies, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, History, and Political Science.

Ramona Hernandez PhD is Director at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, Professor of Sociology at CCNY, and a member of the Doctoral Faculty in Sociology, at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Gregory Duff Morton PhD is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Latino Studies at CCNY, and a Dominican Studies Fellow at CUNY Dominican Studies Institute.