ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the main aspects of the period of the Belarus-Lithuania border maturation and how the social stratification which the development and strengthening of the border had brought into life influenced the practices of shuttle trade in the Amjany region. The practices of cross-border petty trade were reconfigured during the period of the BelarusLithuania border maturation in 1994. The mass shuttle trade of the early 1990s was gradually replaced by three major types of petty trading, which have existed in the town until today professional arbitrage, casual trade and courier activities. However, several social groups continued to enjoy their cross-border mobility during that period and implement shuttle trade activities. This ambiguity is applicable not only to the causality between spatial and social mobility but also to the experience of geographical mobility as such. The ambiguous influence of cross-border mobility was strikingly represented through the case of older women.
