Re-bordering Europe: Fashioning the Eastern EU Boundary on the Polish-Ukrainian Frontier

2004年，经过数年的法律和结构调整，波兰-乌克兰边界不再仅仅是两个民族国家之间的分界线，而是成为跨国欧洲共同体的边界。这项研究是对波兰国家如何建立、维持、合法化和自然化这种不断演变的边界安排的人类学和历史评估，以及新兴的人口和领土分类如何在个人和群体的日常理解中具体化。通过档案工作、正式访谈和参与者观察，研究人员将通过记录如何通过调整法律结构和政治修辞、叙事、官方行为和国家官员以及参与双向跨境交通的人员的非正式实践，在关键地点定义和制定超国家社区的归属和排斥，从而对这种空间和交通的重组进行民族志描述。该研究将有助于深入了解在新的边境制度下，来自欧盟以外的东欧人将关注的社会差异建设过程。

In 2004, after several years of legal and structural adjustments, the Polish-Ukranian border ceased to demarcate just a divide between two nation-states, and instead became a frontier of the transnational European community. This research is an anthropological and historical assessment of how the Polish state establishes, maintains, legitimizes and naturalizes this evolving border arrangement, and how the emerging classification of populations and territory materializes in the daily understandings of individuals and groups. Employing archival work, formal interviews and participant observation, the researcher will produce an ethnographic account of this reorganization of space and traffic, by documenting how belonging to, and exclusion from a supranational community are defined and enacted in key sites through the adjustment of legal structures and political rhetoric, narratives, official actions and informal practices of state officials as well as of persons involved in two-way cross-border traffic. The research will contribute an insight into the processes of social construction of difference that under the new border regime will concern Eastern Europeans from outside of the EU.