Why So Many Dominican Republic Immigrants Settled In Tarrytown And Sleepy Hollow, New York
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4 pages in length. Industrialism is the primary reason why so many Dominicans settled in Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, New York during the first half of the twentieth century. Both villages, quaint side-by-side communities that epitomized small town life, became a focal point of development as General Motors built its first automobile plant on its shores. With the call of a better life awaiting them, Dominicans - along with Polish, French-Canadian, Cuban, Ecuadorians, Slovak and other workers - found their way to Sleepy Hollow and Tarry town in order to take advantage of the money-making opportunities. The next wave of Dominican immigrants in the 1960s again sought their way back to the two villages in part because of the existing social capital that had existed since the Industrial Age, as well as to augment their economic status after leaving a country where wages were neither competitive nor in great supply. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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