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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2017, 2 (134), 416—421

UDK 911.3:32 (477:439)(1­192.2)

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2017.02.416

ETHNO­DEMOGRAPHIC AND ETHNO­POLITICAL PROCESSES IN THE UKRAINIAN­HUNGARIAN BORDER AT THE BEGINNING OF 21 CENTURY

Skliarska Oksana, candidate of geographic sciences

at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv,

Universytetska Street 1, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine.

Contacts: e-mail: geodekanat@gmail.com

Abstract. The article reveals to the features of the modern demographic processes in the administrative districts Ukrainian­Hungarian border. The main consequences of ethnic and demographic effects of ethno­social changes and political processes in ethnic contact zone were indicated. Demographic parameters on both sides of the border were compared in article. Key features of electoral behaviour of the population in ethnonational aspect were revealed, the network of civil organizations of ethnic communities and it`s activity were analyzed. It was revealed, that the main idea of implementing the state ethnopolicy in the Ukrainian­Hungarian border must be the idea of integrating border zone population in the all language­cultural and sociopolitical environment.

Keywords: border, ethnic minority, ethno­political process, consolidation, demographic changes.

Received 11.02.2017

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