We all know that there are tens or hundreds of Dominicans being deported back to DR from various countries (mainly the US) for an entire array of reasons.
I guess we can all agree that those being deported because the have committed a crime overseas should be deported and dealt with accordingly both at the country where the offense was committed and upon their return to the DR by performing close monitoring of those citizens' activities. But it's not those citizens I'm writing about. I'm looking to bring some notoriety on those (Dominican) citizens that are sent back to the DR after having spent most of their natural life in another country (let's say the US for the time being), assimilated that country's culture to the extent where that country's language has become their native language because they left the DR as a small child. Through the passage of time, their cultural ties to their native country (DR) has become more and more of a faint, distant concept and now they find themselves being returned to a country that could conceivably seem as alien to them as to any other foreigner setting foot in the DR.
Putting all details aside as to why or how they were deported, does the DR have or do any of you know of an entity that assists these Dominican citizens in adjusting to their new life in the DR much in the way of a foreigner in their own land taking into consideration that they may speak little to no Spanish?
I know of a specific case of someone who's now 28 y/o, left the DR at 2 yrs of age and has been sent back to the DR for committing a crime in the US. This young man never bothered to become a US citizen and is now living in the DR, speaks hardly any Spanish at all, is a 100% culturally American-assimilated Dominican and well, aside from the obvious fact that he shouldn't have committed the crime, is there any help he can receive in trying to successfully acclimate himself to DR?
His parents are both Dominican, as well as himself. They separated/divorced early in his childhood, grew up with his mom who eventually married an American and grew up in a mostly English speaking home in mid-west US.
Any help/information would be greatly appreciated. :ermm:
I guess we can all agree that those being deported because the have committed a crime overseas should be deported and dealt with accordingly both at the country where the offense was committed and upon their return to the DR by performing close monitoring of those citizens' activities. But it's not those citizens I'm writing about. I'm looking to bring some notoriety on those (Dominican) citizens that are sent back to the DR after having spent most of their natural life in another country (let's say the US for the time being), assimilated that country's culture to the extent where that country's language has become their native language because they left the DR as a small child. Through the passage of time, their cultural ties to their native country (DR) has become more and more of a faint, distant concept and now they find themselves being returned to a country that could conceivably seem as alien to them as to any other foreigner setting foot in the DR.
Putting all details aside as to why or how they were deported, does the DR have or do any of you know of an entity that assists these Dominican citizens in adjusting to their new life in the DR much in the way of a foreigner in their own land taking into consideration that they may speak little to no Spanish?
I know of a specific case of someone who's now 28 y/o, left the DR at 2 yrs of age and has been sent back to the DR for committing a crime in the US. This young man never bothered to become a US citizen and is now living in the DR, speaks hardly any Spanish at all, is a 100% culturally American-assimilated Dominican and well, aside from the obvious fact that he shouldn't have committed the crime, is there any help he can receive in trying to successfully acclimate himself to DR?
His parents are both Dominican, as well as himself. They separated/divorced early in his childhood, grew up with his mom who eventually married an American and grew up in a mostly English speaking home in mid-west US.
Any help/information would be greatly appreciated. :ermm:
