The 10th Migration Dialogue seminar was held March 7-9, 2002 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Migration Dialogue seminars provide a setting for 40 opinion leaders from Europe and North America to learn about and discuss the major migration management issues of the twenty-first century. Seminars include day-long field trips that enable participants to observe real-world migration issues, and to discuss them with government officials, employers, and migrant advocates and migrants. Reports of past seminars are at: The Caribbean island of Hispaniola is divided between two quite different countries, the Dominican Republic (DR) and Haiti. Emigration pressures from the Dominican Republic are often described as structural, suggesting that foreign investment and the creation of factory jobs in export-processing zones or services would not reduce the desire of many Dominicans to emigrate. The Dominican Republic is a transnational society 1 in 9 residents lives abroad, and many shuttle between New York City or Boston and the Dominican Republic in a lifestyle characterized by work-in-the-U.S. and vacation or retirement in the Dominican Republic: Over there (U.S.) is the country of work. This is the country of the heart. The central issues explored in the 2002 seminar included: