LECTURE 4
Analyzing regional economies and social processes
Drawing
from the results of research projects conducted in the past years in the
Hungarian-Romanian-Ukrainian and Hungarian-Romanian-Serbian border regions,
students discussed in small groups certain important economic and social trends
which are taking place in the mentioned geographical areas, such as: the
increasing social polarisation (partly the outcome of cross-border employment);
the intensification of migration in the border areas; the new demographic
situation emerging under the influence of
current economic changes and of
the migratory phenomena; the
transformation of legal and illegal segments of employment. In discussing these issues, students from