Social relations and youth mobility on borderlands (on the example of Ukraine, Poland, Hungary)

Abstract

Borderland occupies a special position in the mental-geographical mapping. On the one hand, it is the periphery of countries, on the other − it becomes the center of specific region where the processes are defined by the boundary factor. The life-style of borderland population demonstrates special interaction of border countries. Borderland is about the distance factor and border countries relationship. Borderland is the specific area of development, where: problems of international relations are solved; new specific problems arise; the process of «layering» of different social and cultural meanings, of social structures on the geographic environment takes placeю