Transformacja tożsamości mniejszości narodowej w warunkach istotnych zmian politycznych na przykładzie Ukraińców Podlasia

Abstract

In the article the author is trying to show the process of complicating national structures and the evolution of the national identity on the area of the borderland. These changes are happening in progressing social, cultural and political transformations which touched these areas upon last decades. An Ukrainian minority in podlaskie voivodeship is a subject of these transformations. Within the last decades this population was subject of intense and characteristic identity transformations. It is interesting to trace the evolution of the national identity of Ukrainian minority in podlaskie voivodeship and simultaneously state that this proces still didn’t end. The article is leaning on two rounds of own examinations as well as researches conducted in the past by historians and linguists concerning areas of today’s podlaskie voivodeship.