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Social, Human and Positive Psychological Capital in the Labour Market Re-integration of People Deported to the Dominican Republic

2020, Y. Ceciliano-Navarro, T. Golash-Boza, Social, Human and Capital in the Labour Market Re-integration of People Deported to the Dominican Republic
Tipo
Artículo (revista, blog, etc.)
País
República Dominicana (la)
Región
América Central y del Norte y el Caribe
Organización
Organización Internacional para las Migraciones, The Authors International Migration
Año
2020
Serie de la publicación
International Migration Volume 59, Issue 2
Authors
T. Golash-Boza, Y. Ceciliano-Navarro

More than six million people have been deported from the United States since 1996. The Dominican Republic is one of the top ten countries to which deportees are sent. Most scholarship on deportation focuses on the challenges deportees face post-deportation. There is also a long history of scholarship on how migrants draw from social, human and financial capital to integrate into host societies. This article thus asks what forms of capital are useful for deportees’ re-integration and focuses on the forms of capital deportees draw from to survive in the aftermath of deportation. An analysis of 60 in-depth interviews with Dominican deportees reveals how deportees’ combination of limited human capital, fractured social capital and positive psychological capital assists in their re-integration. Results also show that access to employment is not only an important step in social and economic integration, but that it also helps deportees to achieve emotional stability.        

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