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 considered 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 had the opportunity to explore these experiences in contrast with those of the City’s older immigrant groups including Hungarian and Puerto Rican communities.
