Cross-Border Mobility in Eastern European Union Countries

<p>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.</p><p>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 territorialisation of relevant policies.</p><p>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.</p>