%0 Journal Article
%T Three Buses: The Escape of the Ukrainians from Poland in the 1980s, its Invisibility in Migration Studies and why they are not “Polish migrants”
%A Trzeszczyńska, Patrycja
%J Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora
%V 2020 (XLVI)
%R 10.4467/25444972SMPP.20.010.12326
%N Vol. 2 (176)
%P 31-52
%K minority migrations, Ukrainians, Canada, Polish migrants
%@ 2081-4488
%D 2020
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/smpp/article/trzy-autobusy-o-niewidzialnej-w-studiach-migracyjnych-ucieczce-ukraincow-z-polski-w-latach-80-xx-w-i-dlaczego-nie-sa-polskimi-migrantami
%X 
	The aim of the text is to reflect on the absence in Polish migration studies of research on the emigration of members of national / ethnic minorities from Poland in the 1980s, on the example of Ukrainians. The author presents the causes and course of emigration of Polish citizens of Ukrainian nationality in the last decade of the Polish People’s Republic, highlighting the consequences of this migration for the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, the Ukrainian national minority in Poland and for the migrants themselves. The author undertakes a discussion with literature which defines Polish emigrants of the 1980s to Canada and Western Europe as “Polish emigrants”, pointing out the differences between migration motivations and adaptation strategies of Polish and Ukrainian migrants in the 1980s. The article also discusses the attitudes of Ukrainian emigrants towards the country of origin, the impact of their minority condition in the People’s Republic of Poland on their new identity in their host country as well as lifestyle choices.