evidence: Polish migrants are now Northern Ireland’s largest minority community. According to the 2021 census, more than 22,300 people living in the north were born in the Eastern European country. [...] Polish nationals make up almost a fifth (18%) of all people living in Northern Ireland who were born outside Britain or Ireland. [...] Although the number of Polish migrants in Northern Ireland has increased in the last decade – 22,335 people in 2021 compared to 19,658 in 2011 – anecdotally, some families left after the UK opted in 2016 to leave the EU.