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In this chapter we shall be concerned with the circumstances of arrival of the present Polish Community in Great Britain and more particularly we shall trace the origin of each of the main components of the Polish Community. This type of treatment of the problem is of great importance in view of significant differences in the length of the period of residence among the different members of the Polish Community. This variable appears to be an important factor affecting the process of assimilation, and so does the origin of each group and circumstance of its arrival.
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The figures of civilian population are taken from E. M. Kulischer’s, The Displacement of Population in Europe, p. 49, International Labour Office, 1943. All data relating to Polish soldiers are taken from Polska Historia w Drugiej Wojnie Swiatowej (Poland during the Second War) by Andrzej Liebich, Vol. II, London, 1947.
German Occupation of Poland, p. 22. (A White Book published by the Polish Government in London, 1941).
Quoted by E. M. Kulischer, The Displacement of Population in Europe, International Labour Office, 1943, op. cit., p. 59.
Grzegorz Frumkin, “Pologne: Dix Armées d’Histoire Démographique” in Population, Vol. IV, p. 702, October-December 1949.
United Nations, The Refugee in the Post-war World, p. 51. Of these some 75% had been deported for labour, the remainder were political deportees in the strict sense of the term.
A. Liebich, op. cit., p. 24.
The entire Second Corps was brought to England in the late Summer and early Autumn 1946.
A. Liebich, op. cit., p. 69.
ut supra, p. 73.
Section 4 of this Chapter will deal in some detail with the institutional process of Polish resettlement, i.e. chiefly with the activities of the Polish Resettlement Corps.
Fourth Report from the Select Committee on Estimates: Polish Resettlement, p. xi, Parliamentary Papers No. 91. Session 1948–1949.
This figure relates to persons brought to this country under the auspices of the International Refugee Organization in the second half of 1950. (Cmd. 8376, p. 26).
Quantitative analysis of this factor will be given in Chapter IV. 2 Cmd. 8276, p. 26.
House of Commons Papers, Vol. 473, p. 87.
The geographical distribution of Polish community in Great Britain will be analysed in Chapter V.
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Zubrzycki, J. (1956). Circumstances of Arrival, 1940–1950. In: Polish Immigrants in Britain. Studies in Social Life, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9783-0_4
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