Yesterday we had lunch with friends who were down from Massachusetts. Like Hania, they left Poland in the early ’80s, and, like Hania, they are distraught at what is happening in their adopted home. They constitute a forgotten segment of the immigrant population: people who are not threatened with expulsion – they came legally and now have citizenship – but who find themselves living in a country very different from the one they moved to, a country they would probably not choose to immigrate to today.
