Przemiany tożsamości na przykładzie Ukraińców Podlasia
Identity Changes on the Example of the Podlasie Ukrainians

Summary/Abstract: In the article the author attempts to present the process of national structures complication and national identity evolution on the borderlands area in the conditions of the ongoing political, social and cultural changes that these areas have experienced in the past several dozen years. The subject of these changes is the population nowadays calling itself the Ukrainian minority in the Podlasie voivodeship, or as they call themselves, the „Podlasie Ukrainians”. In the past decades this population has undergone great and critical consciousness and identity changes which were most often the result of, and connected to, the changes in the geopolitical sphere of the region. It is interesting to track the evolution of the Ukrainian national identity in the Podlasie voivodeship and at the same time discover that this process is not over yet. This article is based on both the two turns of own research and the scientific research conducted in the past by historians and linguists on the lands of today’s Podlasie voivodeship. The dynamic national being of the Ukrainian minority in the Podlasie voivodeship very clearly presents how, under what factors, events and in which direction can both the national picture of the given region and the ethnic and national identity of a given group change.

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