Ruhrpolen
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The Ruhrpolen is a German term for Poles who immigrated to the rapidly-industrializing areas of the Ruhr Valley, mainly from historical eastern Germany, that is the Prussian provinces of Posen, (Upper) Silesia, and East and West Prussia, in a migration wave known as the Ostflucht. There they found employment in the mining, steel and construction industries.
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- Mark Terkessidis, "Migranten", EVA, 2000