Dominican Diaspora Promo Video

Book Review – Home Again stories of migration and return

Book Review
Sorhaindo, Celia and Pattullo, Polly – Home Again stories of migration and return, London and Roseau, Dominica, Papillote Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9532224-5-2, £9.99
By Darren Sylvester & Dawn Celaire Robinson
We had the early advantage of reading this book in May 2009 thanks to Dr David Michael purchasing a copy for us while on holiday in [...]

Dominican Government’s strategy for fully integrating overseas-based nationals

The Dominican Government is due to run it’s annual meeting with overseas based nationals at the State House in Roseau on Monday 2nd November 2009  and a major part of this discussion will focus on the draft paper that has been circulating called “Draft Diaspora Policy paper”
The Government has recognised the contribution to the economy [...]

Reverse Migration : A growing trend?

Since 2008 I have had an interest in what I have heard called “reverse migration” – it is the movement of first/second born members of the diaspora returning to the land of their parents / grandparents.
They are taking their skills and money from England, the US and other western countries and moving back to the Caribbean to [...]

Dominican Diaspora member Jerlyn Thomas On DD

About Dominican Diaspora

Dominican Diaspora was started in February 2008 after I spent 4 hours developing a HubPage on Dominica and coming to the realisation that I really didn’t know much about the traditions, history and heritage that was mine by birth.
In this video I speak a little about my hopes for the network. Someone who helped play [...]

The Dominican Diaspora Social Network