"Yankee, Go Home ... and Take Me with You!" Imperialism and International Migration in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1961-1966 (1)‪.‬

Abstract. This article re-examines the relationship between United States imperialism in Santo Domingo and the advent of mass Dominican migration to the United States in the early 1960s. There was no coherent imperial plan to displace Dominicans from their homeland. The United States relied on a combination of brutal domination and negotiated consent in its attempts to control politics in Santo Domingo. Knowingly or not, Dominicans capitalized on Washington's desire to present the US as a friend of the Dominican people to wedge their way from the periphery to the centre of the imperial system. However, the rise of migration did not signal the beginning of a new, more egalitarian alternative to imperialism in hemispheric relations. More research is needed about the new system of international inequality that emerged as Dominican migrants moved back and forth between a perpetually reeling Dominican economy and the bleak urban spaces of the United States. Resume. Cet article reexamine la relation entre l'imperialisme americain a Santo Domingo et l'avenement de la migration massive dominicaine vers les Etats-Unis au debut des annees soixante. Alors, il n'y avait pas de plan imperial cherchant a deplacer les Dominicains de leur pays. Pour le controle politique de Santo Domingo, les Etats-Unis s'appuyaient sur une combinaison de domination brutale et de consensus negocie. Explicitement ou non, les Dominicains ont su capitaliser sur le desir de Washington de se presenter comme l'ami du peuple dominicain, afin de se frayer un chemin de la peripherie au centre du systeme imperial. Cependant, la croissante migration n'a pas represente le debut d'une nouvelle alternative, plus egalitaire, a l'imperialisme dans les relations hemispheriques. Davantage de recherche est necessaire sur le nouveau systeme international d'inegalite qui emerge avec les perpetuels deplacements de migrants dominicains entre la chancelante economie dominicaine et les espaces ternes des centres urbains americains.