The Central Jersey region is focusing, culturally and geographically, on the experiences of the Latine community in New Brunswick. Predominantly Oaxacan, the Latine community in Central Jersey is also comprised of immigrants from Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and other Latin American and Caribbean countries. The Central Jersey project will consider these communities’ experiences working with staffing agencies and as warehouse labor and restaurant workers, as well as the experience of trying to find work as a new arrival.
Through the dialogues, we will have the opportunity to contrast these experiences with those of the City’s older immigrant groups including Hungarian and Puerto Rican communities.