Description
Undocumented Dominican Migration is the first comprehensive study of boat migration from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. It brings together the interactive global, cultural, and personal factors that induce thousands of Dominicans to journey around the Mona Passage in attempts to escape chronic poverty. The book provides in-depth remedy of decision-making, experiences at sea, migrant smuggling operations, and U.S. border enforcement. It also explores a couple of topics which are rare in migration studies. These include the psychology of migrant motivation, religious beliefs, corruption and impunity, procreation and parenting, compulsive recidivism after failed attempts, social values on the subject of law, marriage fraud, and using false documents for air trip from Puerto Rico to the mainland United States.
Frank Graziano’s extensive fieldwork among migrants, smugglers, and federal agencies provides an authority and immediacy that brings the reader as regards to the migrants’ experiences. The exhaustive research and multidisciplinary approach, highly readable narrative, and concentrate on lesser-known emigrants make Undocumented Dominican Migration an very important addition to public and academic debates about migration.
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