Polish Emigration Distribution

It seemed like a good idea when it started, but I'm not so sure now. I have, however, learnt how to paste table into the blog, so that's not bad.

I saw a hit list compiled by a criminal anti-fascist group and, noticing the number of non-Polish addresses on the Polish list (136 out of 480), I thought it would be interesting to see their destination distribution. The list may not be random or widely representative and some of the places may not be the real locations/spelt correctly. (I liked 'Krapowice' on the Polish list.)

The top scoring destinations were:

London	18
Co. Cork	11
Dublin	9
Bristol	4
Co. Meath	3
Des Plaines	3
Galway	3
Leicester	3
Paisley	3

Ireland 26, England 25, Scotland and USA 3.

With 2 each came the next 14 preferred destination:

Athlone	Huntingdon
Bournemouth	Ipswich
Bradford	Kirckaldy
Co. Westmeath	Leyburn
Co. Tipper Cashel	Peterborough
Hastings	Ripon
Hemel Hempstead	Thetford

Whilst the 51 runners up were:

Aberdeen	Edinburgh	Newcastle under Lyme
Armees	Egilsstadir	Nottingham
Bad Sobernheim	Egilsstodum	Oxford
Beckenham	Evje	Pontypridd
Bedord	Hamburg	Quincy
Braunschweig	Hetzerath	Rasharkin
Bruxelles	Jersey	Redhill
Bury St Edmunds	Laitila	Riverside
Buxton	Langenhagen	Romford
Carlow	Laudun	Schenefeld
Chicago	Limerick	Southport
Clonmel	Lydney	St. Marys
Co. Kildare	Masham	St. Leonards on Sea
Co. Louth	Meckenheim	Staines
Co. Roscomm	Nailsea	Stamford
Dresden	Nesoddtangen	Sutton
Dungannon	Newbridge	Trenton

There's lots of hard data in a Migration Information Source article from 2010. This shows temporary stay destinations in 2008, with the EU lead countries being the UK (650 thousand), Germany (490K) and Ireland (190K). This illustration shows remittances from Polish workers to Poland by country of residence:

To assess the volume of movement to the EU countries, assume that the US level of money sent home has remained roughly stable. You'll have to read the article to assess the reliability of the assumption. If you do this, the increased movement to the UK and Ireland, rather than Germany, is clear (taking into account the article's suggestion that the 2009 fall in the proportion of receipts from the UK and Ireland reflected the economic situation of Poles living there). This corresponds to their predominance in the list I complied at the beginning of this post: I wondered why Germany was not more important. Is this co-incidence?