Niedoszłe przejście graniczne Wołosate–Łubnia. Refleksja nad bieszczadzkim odcinkiem pogranicza polsko-ukraińskiego

Abstract

The author writes about an initiative to open a border crossing between Poland and Ukraine in the Bieszczady village of Wołosate, concentrating particularly on the social actors involved and showing their positions: the Bieszczady National Park, the Bieszczady Border Guard Division, local society, the Polish state, and also tourists, ecologists, and other activists engaged in the affair. The author’s reflections are based on statements gathered during a stay in Wołosate and Ustrzyki Górne in July 2014 and on other opinions regarding the question. These considerations differentiate, at the theoretical level, between the border administration and society, and enable the marked specificity of this fragment of the Polish-Ukrainian border to be perceived.