Cross-Border Mobility in Eastern European Union Countries

External Shocks and Regional Resilience
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-70175-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy

This book examines how cross-border mobility across the eastern border of Poland with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, driven by external shocks, influences different territorial units.

It offers a new understanding of the determinants, dynamics, spatial distribution, and impact on such mobility in times of upheaval and uncertainty. It provides answers to the following questions: how do the different types of flows of people evolve under various external shocks?; to what extent is cross-border mobility resilient to these shocks in terms of the intensity of flows, their volume and the directions of linkages?; how do rapid and unexpected changes in cross-border mobility affect the performance of national, regional, and local social and economic systems?; and to what extent and how does cross-border mobility as triggered by external shocks reinforce, deepen, or alter existing spatial regularities and differentiations? Referring to current events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the book presents evidence of their implications on cross-border mobility, illuminating policy responses with a view to potential future crises. Further, it draws attention to the territorial aspects of changes in the patterns of cross-border population flows that provide a rationale for the territorialization of relevant policies.

Due to its interdisciplinary character, including issues in the scope of regional economics, human geography and international relations, the book is a timely, valid, and unique publication, which will appeal to a broad group of specialists: scholars, researchers and policymakers, as well as decision-makers interested in the socio-economic and political situation in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly on the external border of the European Union.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jakubowski, Andrzej

Komornicki, Tomasz

Szejgiec-Kolenda, Barbara

Wisniewski, Rafal

Maruniak, Eugenia

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Cross-border mobility under external shocks. A theoretical debate 2. Determinants of mobility across the Polish section of the EU’s external border 3. The labour, educational and tourist markets in Poland 5. Cross-border mobility before 2019 5. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cross-border mobility 6. The impact of the war in Ukraine on cross-border mobility 7. Summary

Über Autor(innen)

Tomasz Komornicki is Professor at the Stanislaw Leszczycki Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland and Professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

Rafal Wisniewski is Professor at the Stanislaw Leszczycki Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

Andrzej Jakubowski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

Barbara Szejgiec-Kolenda is Researcher at the Stanislaw Leszczycki Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

Eugenia Maruniak is Chief Researcher and Director of the Institute of Geography, and a corresponding member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine.