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Dynamics and social impacts of the labour markets on local communities in Eastern Europe accelerated by the EU-Integration

Objective

Studies reflect the geopolitical transformations and the sociological impacts on the level of “big things”, for instance the performance of economies, the standards and the emergence of civil trends in the Eastern hemisphere. The network project will take into account these processes but aims to analyze and understand the problems starting from the facts and logics of the “small things”. Therefore, the network project emphasizes the dynamics of labor markets as empirical impacts on people’s chances to participate in labor. The approach is interdisciplinary involving social conditions of life (sociology), socio-economic transition (socio-economic aspects) and the perception of borders, interethnic rivalries, social participation and identities (socio-cultural factors).
The general task is a bottom up contribution to the central issue: how could civil society be developed and emerge starting from the local and existential conditions of people. The network aims to concentrate on access and exclusion in labor as the essential resource for the individuals and municipalities of a society; looks for insights into the question of how the changing relations between East and West generate social dynamics in the local labor markets; analyses the impacts of these dynamics on social polarities between losers and winners, their reactions to inter-ethnic relations, the perception and images of borders and the taking an active part in local life and civil society.
The network project aims to bring together these insights over three levels: Primary data analysis and case studies:
In the border regions of Poland, Belarus, the Ukraine and in towns of Russia and Bulgaria case studies are planned: by qualitative and/or quantitative methods the topics are described, analyzed and interpreted. In three case studies the border regions are selected and the teams will cooperate: in Poland the Podlaskie area is compared with Hrodna in Belarus and Zakarpatia in the Western parts of the Ukraine.
In Russia and in Bulgaria two towns, Stupino and Pernik, are the areas of analysis and comparison.
Secondary analysis and reviews:
The changing interaction space and its impacts on the labor markets and on community development are reviewed in four areas: in the Western hemisphere, mainly in Switzerland and Germany as countries outsourcing labor to the East, the new EU-countries (Poland) or candidates (Bulgaria), the NIS countries Belarus, Russia and Ukraine and the Caucasian area (represented by Georgia).
Networking:
Three collaboration meetings are foreseen, the first in Bialystok (Poland), the second in Russia and the final meeting in Tbilisi. The networking initiates spin off projects involving additional resources of the participating institutions or organizations.

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Social Science Institute cultur prospectiv (CPI-Institut AG)
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