ABSTRACT
This chapter examines what happened to shuttle trade in Amjany after the Belarus Lithuania border reached the most recent and, the most persistent stage, that of the Schengen border. The 20-year history of shuttle trade development in the Belarus-Lithuania border region led to the normalization of this activity in the perception of Amjany dwellers. Among the key rules of the Schengen cooperation mentioned on the European Union official web page are the removal of checks on persons on internal borders; police and judicial cooperation and the establishment and development of the Schengen information system. According to political scientist Heather Grabbe, the border policy of the EU today is driven primarily by a micro-security approach. Schengen as a frustrating experience for East European people from outside of the EU has been the object of several studies already. A more material explanation of Schengen's negative influence was represented in the previously mentioned study of ants on the Polish Ukrainian border.
