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Passport to Exile: The Polish Way to London Item Info

Title:
Passport to Exile: The Polish Way to London
Description:
Passport to Exile: the Polish Way to London is the second publication in the Hammersmith & Fulham Community History series. This bilingual publication was transcribed, translated, and edited by Sav Kyriacou and the Polish Reminiscence group. The publication includes five autobiographies, which describe Poles coming to London in the 1940s, their lives in their new homes, and the reasons they chose to stay. Cultural expectations dominate discussion of bias and stereotypes. This publication continues into another called, Travelling Light: Poles on Foreign Soil.
Publisher:
Ethnic Communities Oral History Project / Hammersmith and Fulham Community History Series no. 2
Creator:
Polish Reminiscence Group
Contributor:
Sav Kyriacou Czeslaw Lucyna Malgorzata Rex and Rita Jerzy Malgorzata
Date:
1988
Type:
text
Format:
application/pdf
Subjects:
immigration migration Poland war Ethnic Communities Oral History Project London activism art childhood family labour publishing multi/translingual writing
Latitude:
51.4816906118967
Longitude:
-0.212489521551853
Location:
London
Language:
Polish, English
Is a Part of:
Trades Union Congress Library Collections, FWWCP Collection, Region 8 London, Box 12
Source
Preferred Citation:
"Passport to Exile: The Polish Way to London", Digital Collections, FWWCP
Reference Link:
https://library.bc.edu/ds/fwwcp/items/fwwcp08l12369.html