Mniejszość ukraińska w warunkach przeobrażeń ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem narodu kulturowego

Abstract

For two hundred years we have been witnesses of increasing of nations and nothing is heralding the end of this process. The author is trying to describe, at least partially, possible national and ethnic processes on borderlands of Poland and the European Union. These processes are presented on the example of the analysis of chosen indicators being characteristic of an indigenous Ukrainian minority in Podlasie and its transformation. The author is trying to show nation-creating processes in the borderland, possibilities of transformations and possible ends to which these processes can lead the given group. As one of the possible ends of this process, there is presented a theoretical concept of the cultural nation. The article is divided into three parts: 1) a theoretical part, a description of the assumption of cultural nation 2) a description of the current conditions of the Ukrainian minority in Podlasie, and 3) available ways of the evolution and the development of this national group.