Stasik's classic study of Polish emigration to the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century is now made accessible to a wider audience by the long overdue translation of Eugene Podraza... American and English scholars will appreciate this contextualization which Stasik naturally assumed was common knowledge for Polish readers. -- Kenneth F. Lewalski The Polish Review It is certainly an interesting title and valuable in its discussion of an unfamiliar theme. -- Aleksandra Kazlowska Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies