Polish Immigration Immigration is a term commonly heard throughout the United States, being that this is a country built upon immigrants. Beginning with the Europeans, others such as the Irish, Chinese, Germans, Africans, Mexicans, Syrians, Polish and many more have migrated to the United States and put their roots in it’s soil. In a new country full of innovation, immigrants of all nationalities were able to start a new life and provide better living conditions for their families. People in the 19th century until now originate from multiple backgrounds, compared to the eighteenth century and earlier where people mainly originated from one background. Immigration, leading to the intermarriage of different nationalities, had a major effect
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While the Barczynski’s are of direct polish decent, the Popovice’s originate from Hungary. However, according to my cousin, John Tucker, he has asked the older generations that migrated here of what nationality our family was and they all associated themselves with being Polish. His explanation said it had to do with the Austro-Hungarian Empire reshaping the regions that made it difficult for the Popovice’s to decipher the exact location of their origin. Instead of that generation figuring it out, they claimed themselves to be Polish. Although some of my facts will state my family migrating from Hungary, I will focus on the Polish migration seeing as that’s the nationality my family has always associated themselves with. The older Polish generation in the family enjoy reminiscing about our ancestors and sharing stories of their migration to the United States. Years of swapping stories lead to the beginning of a family Facebook group to begin, where old documents and photos were being shared, sparking my interest in the Polish migration to the United …show more content…
“The Polish-American Community,” a chapter in the book, focus’s on the Polish immigrants and how they assimilated into the American culture. Thomas and Znaniecki commented on the job market at the time for Polish immigrants by stating, “ There are many instance of new settlements springing up in connection with an increased demand for labor in a given locality and suddenly disappearing after a relatively short time, if the labor conditions grow worse, a factory goes bankrupt, or a mine or lumber field is exhaused” (Thomas and Znaniecki 1958, 1515). Numerous laboring jobs were available all throughout the country. Immigrants were the ideal target employees for these jobs however, the majority of these jobs were only temporary. High business soon ended leaving the immigrants jobless once
While the Barczynski’s are of direct polish decent, the Popovice’s originate from Hungary. However, according to my cousin, John Tucker, he has asked the older generations that migrated here of what nationality our family was and they all associated themselves with being Polish. His explanation said it had to do with the Austro-Hungarian Empire reshaping the regions that made it difficult for the Popovice’s to decipher the exact location of their origin. Instead of that generation figuring it out, they claimed themselves to be Polish. Although some of my facts will state my family migrating from Hungary, I will focus on the Polish migration seeing as that’s the nationality my family has always associated themselves with. The older Polish generation in the family enjoy reminiscing about our ancestors and sharing stories of their migration to the United States. Years of swapping stories lead to the beginning of a family Facebook group to begin, where old documents and photos were being shared, sparking my interest in the Polish migration to the United …show more content…
“The Polish-American Community,” a chapter in the book, focus’s on the Polish immigrants and how they assimilated into the American culture. Thomas and Znaniecki commented on the job market at the time for Polish immigrants by stating, “ There are many instance of new settlements springing up in connection with an increased demand for labor in a given locality and suddenly disappearing after a relatively short time, if the labor conditions grow worse, a factory goes bankrupt, or a mine or lumber field is exhaused” (Thomas and Znaniecki 1958, 1515). Numerous laboring jobs were available all throughout the country. Immigrants were the ideal target employees for these jobs however, the majority of these jobs were only temporary. High business soon ended leaving the immigrants jobless once