America’s Ukrainians rally and mobilise
Preparing for a fifth wave of immigrants
THE MANNEQUINS in the window of Executive, a boutique in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach, are dressed in the blue and yellow of Ukraine’s flag. Inside, Khystyna, who moved to America ten years ago, can think only of home and her family. “It’s impossible to function, to sleep,” she says. Brighton Beach, known as Little Odessa, is the largest Ukrainian enclave in New York. Brooklyn has 44,000 immigrants from Ukraine, more than 13,000 of them in Brighton Beach. Firouza Ruzenaji, originally from Uzbekistan, works all night sewing Ukrainian flags to keep up with demand.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Togetherness”
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