Yes, you're right: 3% of the US population has Polish heritage, and only .3% has Ukrainian heritage, while 3.4% of the Canadian population has Ukranian, and 2.7% has Polish. Raw numbers, there are also more Ukrainians in Canada (1.2 million) than in the US (957,000), which is impressive, given the population scale difference.
I've also heard that there's a large Ukrainian population here from folks who work on identity formation, ethnicity, diaspora politics, etc in Canada--so this is interesting to me!
I wonder about these different streams--the UK relationship isn't a relevant variable here (probably), unlike for Irish/Scottish migration, so I don't have any good first guesses about why this dynamic ended up happening. Fascinating, though!
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Date: 2013-12-13 02:47 pm (UTC)Yes, you're right: 3% of the US population has Polish heritage, and only .3% has Ukrainian heritage, while 3.4% of the Canadian population has Ukranian, and 2.7% has Polish. Raw numbers, there are also more Ukrainians in Canada (1.2 million) than in the US (957,000), which is impressive, given the population scale difference.
I've also heard that there's a large Ukrainian population here from folks who work on identity formation, ethnicity, diaspora politics, etc in Canada--so this is interesting to me!
I wonder about these different streams--the UK relationship isn't a relevant variable here (probably), unlike for Irish/Scottish migration, so I don't have any good first guesses about why this dynamic ended up happening. Fascinating, though!
(Also, your icon is the best.)