effects of Covid-19, Dominicans and Salvadorans, the most punished in 2020

First modification: 10/02/2022 – 17:56

The situation was particularly serious for the population of Dominican or Salvadoran origin, affected by 50 percent.

Cubans, Colombians and Mexicans performed better

Helena Olea, associate director of Alianza Américas, a network of migrants in the United States, recalls that 2020 was the start of the pandemic in that country, a moment of paralysis and economic recession, so one must wonder in what job niche they worked. those populations. Without affirming, it advances the idea that it is likely that they were people who were quickly fired, so they were left without economic income.

In the case of the community of Colombian and Cuban origin, Alianza Américas detected that they are people who have a higher level of education, which has repercussions in that they have greater social insertion and better job stability. Those people, as well as Mexicans, are people who could afford to work remotely and were not workers of what is known as “frontline workers” many of whom were laid off.

The eventual family solidarity that those people who have families rooted in the United States or were able to return to their countries of origin can count on, weighed in how the pandemic hit by communities, in particular the Dominican

The associate director of Alianza Américas considers that it is necessary to deepen the analysis in order to know if this has to do with the fact that the affected Dominican community has a higher proportion of Afro-descendants.

Regarding Salvadorans, everything indicates that the negative effects were concentrated in the population of recent entry to the United States, who could not avail themselves of legal status such as asylum or temporary protection. The secrecy deprived them of official aid