During the last century, millions of Ukrainians left their homeland in search of more favorable conditions elsewhere.
Most did so for socioeconomic reasons. Vast numbers of East Ukrainians moved, or were moved, to Russia’s Asian lands. Because these Ukrainians remained within the confines of the Russian Empire and, later, the Soviet Union, they were not emigrants in the usual sense of the word.
By contrast, West Ukrainians headed westward, across the oceans to the New World where they encountered not only unfamiliar lands but radically different political, socioeconomic, and cultural systems. It is they who are generally considered to be Ukrainian emigrants par excellence. Other Ukrainians abandoned their homes primarily for political reasons. Unwilling to accept Soviet rule, they preferred exile. Together these emigrants and political emigres formed the three distinct waves of Ukrainians that fate has, up to now, brought to foreign shores.
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