(In)visibility of the Displaced Populations

The Blind-Spot Effect

Bibliographic Data

ID2487757
AuthorsSvitlana Balinchenko (0000-0001-8345-0522, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume47
Issue2
Pages7-20
Publication date2021-10-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociologija Mintis ir veiksmas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1392-3358 • E-ISSN: 2335-8890
PublisherVilnius University Press (PUBLISHER • LT)
DOI10.15388/socmintvei.2020.2.24
OpenAlexW3201731427
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

In this paper, conflict-triggered internal displacement is reviewed through the visibility of migration-affected groups, as well as their access to decision-making. The blind-spot effect in the migration studies extends the cognitive and social implications of the systems theory, and engulfs both hypovisibility through anopticism and pseudoassimilation, and hypervisibility through panopticism and excessive control of the displaced citizens. In the context of the impact of IDP status on visibility assessment, I suggest supplementing the migration-studies' concepts of 'phlogiston' and 'witch' with that of 'ethanethiol', thus starting a discussion on the role of the otherness marker in the migrantising of citizens. The case of protracted internal displacement in Ukraine due to the Russia-backed armed conflict serves as an illustration of the displaced populations' visibility challenges and solutions

Blind spot · Criminology · Geography · Internal migration · Internally displaced person · Political science · Population · Psychoanalysis · Refugee · Sociology · Visibility · Witch · Law · Neuroscience · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence