<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Under the influence of globalization and state integration processes, the importance of a border as a barrier is gradually decreasing. Borderlands are still perceived as specific phenomena, however, not only in terms of historical development but especially in the context of their changing impact on the daily lives of their inhabitants. Along with EU enlargement, the de-bordering process has also become significant in many countries where the borderland played an important role in the past. These include the V4 countries, whose borderlands are the object of this research. In this article we analyze these areas on the basis of selected socio-economic indicators, with a focus on change in the period 2001–2011. As indicated by the Analysis of Variance, the results show the significantly differentiated development of the borderlands, in terms of the individual values of indicators both within the borderland of the EU member states, as well as along the external border of the EU.</p></abstract>

Under the influence of globalization and state integration processes, the importance of a border as a barrier is gradually decreasing. Borderlands are still perceived as specific phenomena, however, not only in terms of historical development but especially in the context of their changing impact on the daily lives of their inhabitants. Along with EU enlargement, the de-bordering process has also become significant in many countries where the borderland played an important role in the past. These include the V4 countries, whose borderlands are the object of this research. In this article we analyze these areas on the basis of selected socio-economic indicators, with a focus on change in the period 2001–2011. As indicated by the Analysis of Variance, the results show the significantly differentiated development of the borderlands, in terms of the individual values of indicators both within the borderland of the EU member states, as well as along the external border of the EU.

Socio-economic changes in the borderlands of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries

Department of Human Geography and Demography, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

Institute of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice, Košice, Slovakia

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Under the influence of globalization and state integration processes, the importance of a border as a barrier is gradually decreasing. Borderlands are still...

Socio-economic changes in the borderlands of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries

Published Online: Aug 21, 2015

Page range: 26 - 37

Received: Sep 08, 2014

Accepted: Mar 06, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2015-0008

Keywords
Border, borderland, periphery, indicators, the Visegrad Group (V4 countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary), Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

© Lucia Máliková et al.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Socio-economic changes in the borderlands of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries

Published Online: Aug 21, 2015

Page range: 26 - 37

Received: Sep 08, 2014

Accepted: Mar 06, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2015-0008

KeywordsBorder, borderland, periphery, indicators, the Visegrad Group (V4 countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary), Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

© Lucia Máliková et al.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Border, borderland, periphery, indicators, the Visegrad Group (V4 countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary), Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)