Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Migration and citizenship in a globalizing world
  • Migration and settlement : building Polish communities in the Ruhr and northeastern Pennsylvania
  • The face of mining : the coal industry in the Ruhr and northeastern Pennsylvania
  • Breaking barriers : Polish entry into the mines
  • Becoming mining men : Polish integration within the workforce
  • Divided hearts, divided faith : Poles and the Catholic Church
  • Challenging state and society : the "Polish question" and the rise of Polish ethnic associations
  • War and Polish communities transformed, 1914-24
  • Conclusion: Determining the borders of integration.