Dominican Argentines

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Dominican Argentine
Domínico-argentino/Domínico-argentina
Total population
9.000[citation needed]
Regions with significant populations
Buenos Aires
Languages
Spanish
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Argentine people · Dominican people

A Dominican Argentine (Spanish: dominicano-argentino) is an Argentine citizen of full or partial Dominican ancestry.

History

Buenos Aires province concentrates 30 percent of the Dominican emigrants. The rest are spread across the remaining national territory.[1]

Dominican women in prostitution

According to the UN's International Organization for Migration, young women from the Dominican Republic began arriving to Argentina in unprecedented numbers in the 1990s as prostitutes, many of them ending up in Buenos Aires.[2]

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