Search for: [Abstract = "On the other hand, peripherality of the areas inhabited by the examined youth may accumulate these negative socio\-economic processes. Thus emerging difficulties of entering into adulthood may be treated as a sensitive indicator of tensions generated by macrostructures. The main goal of the article is to capture the strategies and resources conditioning them. The Eastern borderlands may be treated as a social laboratory in which social changes take place and the youth is a sensitive measuring tool which lets observe the effects of these changes in a social tissue."]