Polish Immigrants in Britain

Polish Immigrants in Britain
Author: J. Zubrzycki
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9401197830

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Polish Community of New Britain

Polish Community of New Britain
Author: Jonathan Shea
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2005-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781531622275

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Factory jobs in "the Hardware City of the World" began attracting Polish immigrants to New Britain in the 1890s. The Poles soon became the city's largest ethnic group, centering their family, business, social, cultural, and spiritual life on Broad Street. Their Polonia was unparalleled in New England. Three parishes and dozens of organizations shared a strong commitment to Polish education, military service, political representation, and "Dozynki" and "Dzien Zaduszny" traditions. Continuing waves of immigration contributed to Polonia's ceaseless self-renewal. The Polish Community of New Britain celebrates this magnetic vitality and cultural continuity with rare photographs drawn from family albums and local archives.

On the Edges of Whiteness

On the Edges of Whiteness
Author: Jochen Lingelbach
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 178920447X

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From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors. While intervening in key historical debates across academic disciplines, this book also gives an accessible and memorable account of survival and dramatic cultural dislocation against the backdrop of global conflict.