Poles in America
Maintaining the ties
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4256357 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Walter P Krolikowski (Loyola University Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-57 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Into Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00405848109542926 |
| OpenAlex | W2004195882 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The Polish American experience is but a sub-set of experiences similar to others in all parts of the world. Groups leave their homeland and settle in other countries. There are Chinese in Vietnam, North Vietnamese in South Vietnam, Parsees in India, Germans in Hungary, Indians in England, and Italians in Argentina. Conversely, groups remain where they have traditionally been, but shifting borders are the occasion for their acquiring new national identities. Hindus remain in Pakistan; Muslims remain in India. Lithuanians and Estonians are now part of the Union of Soviet Republics. Groups live in border areas and are not easily identified as members of this or that group. Alsace-Lorraine, the Sudetenland, and Bergenland are all border areas. Each of these groups is well worth pondering. Even so, the hundred year history of millions of Poles in America is extraordinarily rich, for it has been characterized by the special circumstances of the interaction of a peasant people with a rapidly growing industrial democracy
Democracy · Development economics · Economic growth · Ethnology · Geography · Homeland · Immigration · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Soviet union · Vietnamese · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Politics and Security · Gender Studies · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |