Cross-border links at the boundaries of the European Union: an ethnography of mobility, work, and citizenship in uncertain times
Journal: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG eBooks
Year: 2019

This chapter explores the role of the state border in the daily life of the inhabitants of the Transcarpathia region in western Ukraine. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it offers an insight into the region, which has been affected by the "Europeanization" of the border regime on the one hand and by the post-2014 crisis in Ukraine on the other. The study points to the use of the border and cross-border links as well as the changes the patterns for doing so have undergone. In the face of politica