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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 across the Mona Passage in attempts to escape chronic poverty. The book provides in-depth treatment of decision-making, experiences at sea, migrant smuggling operations, and U.S. border enforcement. It also explores several topics that 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 in relation to law, marriage fraud, and the use of false documents for air travel 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 close to the migrants’ experiences. The exhaustive research and multidisciplinary approach, highly readable narrative, and focus on lesser-known emigrants make Undocumented Dominican Migration an essential addition to public and academic debates about migration.
- Sales Rank: #2883235 in Books
- Published on: 2014-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.00" w x 6.00" l, 1.11 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 341 pages
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"Using particular migrant trajectories, Graziano brings life and depth to what have become zombie categories in many migration studies. In this process the author makes visible the larger ecologies within which an ‘immigrant subject’ takes shape: the organizer, the captain, the vessel, the Coast Guard. The result is an original and powerful account." (Blurb)
"Can a thorough, well-documented, and theoretically rich academic study also be dramatic and frightening? Can a sophisticated and complex discussion of the causes of emigration be read as if it were a thriller novel? This is what Frank Graziano accomplishes with this eye-opening book, in which he studies the socioeconomic conditions and the complex psychological motivations that entice thousands of Dominican migrants to risk their lives to escape extreme poverty. Using a cross-cultural scholarly perspective, Graziano also discusses the law enforcement principles and tactics of the U.S. Coast Guard and other federal authorities. This exceptional book is destined to become required reading for studies of modern migration." (Frank Moya Pons, author of History of the Caribbean: Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World)
"A truly remarkable scholarly accomplishment, Graziano’s thoroughly researched, engaging, and sensitive exploration of undocumented Dominican migration sheds enormous light on a hitherto murky subject. The author has produced a sorely needed, moving, and readable examination of the forces that ignite unlawful maritime travel from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland, with attention to the life experiences of the individuals involved. Drawing on the pertinent bibliography on Dominican migrants, in-depth interviews with individuals implicated in yola trips, media coverage of the crossings, court cases, congressional hearings, and reports issued by border enforcement agencies, Undocumented Dominican Migration tells a compelling story that reveals the inextricable link between the structural and the personal in an individual's decision to brave the waters of the sea for a chance at a better life on the other shore. While focusing primarily on undocumented migration, Graziano’s study will prove indispensable for researchers into all kinds of emigration from the Caribbean." (Silvio Torres-Saillant, Syracuse University, author of An Intellectual History of the Caribbean)
"Undocumented Dominican Migration is an unflinching, fully nuanced, and humane study of the dark side of today’s broken immigration system. It is a must-read for every scholar, policy-maker, and indeed every engaged citizen concerned with fixing our anachronistic, distopic, and, yes, barbarian immigration system. I am ordering a second copy of the book to send to President Barack Obama today." (Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, founder of the Harvard Immigration Project and of Immigration Studies at New York University and Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles)
Review
"Can a thorough, well-documented, and theoretically rich academic study also be dramatic and frightening? Can a sophisticated and complex discussion of the causes of emigration be read as if it were a thriller novel? This is what Frank Graziano accomplishes with this eye-opening book, in which he studies the socioeconomic conditions and the complex psychological motivations that entice thousands of Dominican migrants to risk their lives to escape extreme poverty. Using a cross-cultural scholarly perspective, Graziano also discusses the law enforcement principles and tactics of the U.S. Coast Guard and other federal authorities. This exceptional book is destined to become required reading for studies of modern migration." (Frank Moya Pons, author of History of the Caribbean: Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World)
"A truly remarkable scholarly accomplishment, Graziano’s thoroughly researched, engaging, and sensitive exploration of undocumented Dominican migration sheds enormous light on a hitherto murky subject. The author has produced a sorely needed, moving, and readable examination of the forces that ignite unlawful maritime travel from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland, with attention to the life experiences of the individuals involved. Drawing on the pertinent bibliography on Dominican migrants, in-depth interviews with individuals implicated in yola trips, media coverage of the crossings, court cases, congressional hearings, and reports issued by border enforcement agencies, Undocumented Dominican Migration tells a compelling story that reveals the inextricable link between the structural and the personal in an individual's decision to brave the waters of the sea for a chance at a better life on the other shore. While focusing primarily on undocumented migration, Graziano’s study will prove indispensable for researchers into all kinds of emigration from the Caribbean." (Silvio Torres-Saillant, Syracuse University, author of An Intellectual History of the Caribbean)
"Undocumented Dominican Migration is an unflinching, fully nuanced, and humane study of the dark side of today’s broken immigration system. It is a must-read for every scholar, policy-maker, and indeed every engaged citizen concerned with fixing our anachronistic, distopic, and, yes, barbarian immigration system. I am ordering a second copy of the book to send to President Barack Obama today." (Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, founder of the Harvard Immigration Project and of Immigration Studies at New York University and Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles)
About the Author
Frank Graziano is John D. MacArthur Professor of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut College. His most recent books are Wounds of Love and Cultures of Devotion.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A close look at Undocumented Dominican Migration
By Neruda
"Undocumented Dominican Migration" is an extraordinary book on illegal Dominican migration to Puerto Rico and to the US mainland. This book, well written and well documented, has been accomplished under intense scientific approach. Touched by the great devotion and humanism of its author, American Professor Frank Graziano, the book is the product of several years of research in which Graziano compiled everything written on Dominican migration and made repeated trips to interview in person many migrants in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and, the United States mainland. From all three countries, he also interviewed coastal and migration authorities and visited prisons and contacted prosecutors that had information on the issue at hand. Now armed with large amounts of data, information, and with the precision of his academic integrity and his great social sensitivity, Graziano proceeded to examine closely the undocumented Dominican migration via yola, resulting in his priceless work.
In this book, the author presents undocumented Dominican migration with a depth never seen before. He explores the geographic, economic, political and cultural aspects of it without neglecting the great human drama of the migrants themselves who, in his book, convey directly their own stories before they get touched by the cold statistics and sociological interpretations. Without ceasing to be an eminently academic work, "Dominican Undocumented Migration" is also a very entertaining book that is easily read and understood. With a great realism, this book takes us to the lives of poor Dominican migrants and their environment of hope, despair and misery.
With this book, Frank Graziano has made an incalculable contribution to give a deeper insight into the issue of the Dominican Republic undocumented migration. The result of his hard work must be received by the governments of the countries involved with the high valuation it deserves. Graziano's book is worthy of being a required reading in the classrooms of the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico as well as a reference book for journalists, historians and sociologists. For Dominican governments, this book should serve as a motivation for them to finally take actions to make emigration of Dominican citizens a matter of choice, and not what it is today: an escape hatch through which Dominicans risk their lives to uncertainty, trying to flee from economic and social problems that seem to perpetuate themselves under the shadow of ineptitude, corruption, and impunity.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
They're sinking!
By David Stoll
Frank Graziano is a scholar of religion, not a social scientist, but a visit to the Dominican Republic lured him into the subject of Dominican yola (boat) migration. He searched out passengers and smugglers who would tell him their story—mainly, the ones who have repeatedly failed. Then he interviewed the Dominican Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard and Border Patrol, and he also took simple but powerful black-and-white portraits of the migrants. The result is not just informative but profoundly moving.
Most yola passengers are drawn from the Dominican poor, a peasant population squeezed off the land by agribusiness and population growth. They are now totally dependent on cash income in a stagnant economy that cannot employ them in the formal sector.
Graziano is amazed by the bravery required to step into a small boat to cross a treacherous strait in which hundreds, perhaps thousands, of migrants have drowned. But most Dominicans are so unfamiliar with the sea, and he sees so many signs of carelessness, that he suspects that rational calculation is actually minimal, and that they take to the sea with the kind of emotional decision-making with which young men volunteer for a war and then expect to step into a war movie.
Many of the boats with which Dominicans attempt to cross the Mona Passage to Puerto Rico are not very functional in terms of nautical design, nor are the smugglers very reliable, which leads some migrants to place their faith in relatives who have even less idea of what they’re doing.
According to Graziano, many Dominican wannabes fail to grasp the existence of a large underclass in the U.S., with the result that they are most likely to end up working in the informal sector for Puerto Ricans. Whether they get no farther than the next island or make it to the U.S. mainland, especially the New York metropolitan area, the Dominicans are part of bumper-ball migration stretching from Haiti to the northeastern United States.
I am fascinated by how the experience of the Dominicans parallels that of the many Guatemalans I interviewed for El Norte or Bust! The boat trips themselves cost only a fraction of what coyotes charge Guatemalans for the overland journey through Mexico to a US safe house, but the rate of failure seems to be much higher. Graziano believes that 70-80% of yolas are interdicted and the percentage of men who send back remittances seems to be much lower than in the case of Guatemalans. In a neighborhood surveyed by other investigators, 77% of the households had family members in the US but only 26% were receiving remittances. From his many interviews Graziano concludes that migration continues even after the sought-after labor market in Puerto Rico or the U.S. mainland is saturated, with the result that migrants cannot pay back the high cost of the trip and lose everything—“without Puerto Rico, without a farm, and without a house” in the words of Dominican observer.
When people feel they need to take to the sea in small boats to realize their dreams, there is something very wrong with the society that induces those dreams.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A REMARKABLY COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
By Teslin MacLaren
In addition to the structural factors that are commonly treated in sociological studies, this book treats the personal (frustration, love, ambition) and cultural factors that contribute to migration. The analyses of Coast Guard operations and US Attorney prosecutions are fascinating and enlightening, as are the discussions of border enforcement and US immigration policy generally. Another strength of the book is its empathy, for migrants but also for the Coast Guard, without romanticizing or apologizing for anyone. This study is a major accomplishment and will likely become the definitive work in the field.
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