Wychodźstwo z województwa poleskiego za ocean. Zarys problematyki

Abstract

In the article emigrational processes and main directions in the exodus from the Polesie Voivodeship to countries of North and South America in the interwar period have been presented. Internal and external conditions of the exodus processes, including emigrational policy of the Second Commonwealth, have been taken into account. The Polesie Voivodship, constituting a part of the eastern borderlands (Kresy Wschodnie), was a sparsely populated and economically undeveloped region, with a variety of nationalities and denominations. Emigration from the Polesie Voivodeship can be subdivided into a couple of groups, according to their nationality and denomination: Jews, Poles, Orthodox Belarusians, Ukrainians and Polishchucs. The author of the article underlines the importance of the Polesie Voivodeship in the exodus of Orthodox population from the II Commonwealth.