Published : 2025-09-26

Poland’s Eastern Borderlands in the Perspective of Cultural Changes Triggered by Migration Processes in the Second and Third Decades of the 21st Century

Anna Chabasińska



Abstract

The article presents the Eastern borderlands in the context of contemporary international migration. In the first part, using the center-periphery dependency model and Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of capital types, I analyze the specificity of this region stemming from intense interactions between competing cultures and identities. This analysis helps to understand how migration processes fit into the cultural landscape of the borderlands and what challenges and threats its inhabitants face. The second part of the text is dedicated to the cultural security of the borderland. Here, I highlight the potential dissonance between the state’s perception of cultural security and how it is perceived by the borderlands’ residents. I argue that this discrepancy results from differing interpretations of cultural phenomena occurring in the borderlands and from the distinct values underlying national and local identities as well.

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migrations, easter borderland, cultural security, center–periphery concept



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