Diaspora, ojczyzny i pamięć w życiu ukraińskich migrantów z Polski w Kanadzie
Diaspora, Homelands and Memory in Lives of Ukrainian Migrants from Poland in Canada

Summary/Abstract: The basis for this article is ethnographic field research carried out in Canada in 2014–2016 among Ukrainians who emigrated from Poland in 1980s and met vibrant Ukrainian diaspora built by earlier generations of Ukrainian migrants. The author analyses the encounter of official, diasporic discourses of the Ukrainian past with the local history of Ukrainians from Poland, especially displacement of 1947, spaces of self-presentation, role and significance of images of Poland and Ukraine in their lives, their involvement in wider Ukrainian context in Canada, contacts with the local Polish diaspora, problems with explicit identity assignment and a specific group distinctiveness that is a challenge for the essentialistically understood diaspora. In return, she proposes to consider the part of the Ukrainian diaspora as a transnational imaginary community (the concept of M. Sökefeld), and to follow the attitudes, practices and ideas of both the diaspora and the native country.

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