Abstract
The Schengen phenomenon is one of the most significant examples of the process of the declining importance of states and state (national) identities as well as the growing meaning of regional (in the concept of the Europe of regions) and international or global structures. The removal of border checks and the ability to cross borders anywhere resulted in a significant change in the conditions both for institutions and for people living in border areas. We want to refer this changes especially in the five model Central European border areas (Euroregions): Elbe/Labe, Šumava/Bayerischer Wald-Unterer Inn/Mühlviertel, Silva Nortica, Bílé/Biele Karpaty and Praděd/Pradziad. We carried out the survey with the help of students working as interviewers in the field in total with almost 3,300 respondents. This introductory chapter presents the summaries of the following chapters as well.
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The book is the result of research findings sponsored by the Academy of Science of the Czechia: No. IAA311230901, ‘Czech borderland after Schengen: self-sufficient, oscillatory or transit region?’ and by the Grant Agency of the Czechia No. P410/12/G113, ‘Historical Geography Research Centre’.
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Jeřábek, M., Havlíček, T., Dokoupil, J. (2018). Introduction. In: Havlíček, T., Jeřábek, M., Dokoupil, J. (eds) Borders in Central Europe After the Schengen Agreement. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63016-8_1
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