Polonia francuska - ewolucja struktury przestrzennej i demograficzno- społecznej
Streszczenie
W artykule przedstawiono kierunki i dynamikę zmian struktury przestrzennej i demograficzno-społecznej Polonii francuskiej, zarówno od strony obszarów odpływu, jak
i napływu migracyjnego. Zakres czasowy opracowania obejmuje okres od I wojny
światowej do czasów współczesnych. Polish emigrants in France constitute one of the largest Polish colonies in west-European
countries. The development of this population, its social and cultural life and its economic
activity have been acutely described by several Polish and French researches. However, only
few studies concerned exclusively the spatial aspects of Polish emigration in France. The
present paper aims at representing the evolution of spatial and socio-demographic structure
of this comm unity with regard to areas of both migratory influx and efllux. The time range
of this study covers the period from the First World W ar to the present time. The data used
in this study comes from French and Polish emigration statistics and from unpublished papers
prepared by a special research team in the University of Łódź dealing with spatial studies of
Polish emigration. The statistics relating to Polish emigration in France are not entirely
credible and homogenous.