This article examines the impact of the enlargement of the European Union (EU) eastward on the position of the Ukrainian minority in Poland. The enlargement process shows two contradictory facts in the peripheral countries on the borders of the...

The renaissance of border studies during the past decade has been characterized by a crossing of disciplinary borders, bringing together geographers, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, historians, literary scholars, legal...

The article deals with the functions of the minority population in border areas. These minorities have been a potential conflict in the past. Through the last few decades has changed the situation by various forms of cross-border cooperation....