Дискурсивни практики и стратегии на омраза
Discursive Practicies and Strategies of Hate

How the Figure of the Refugee is Constructed

Author(s): Tanya Orbova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Social differentiation, Migration Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: refugees; discourse; otherness; hate; discursive strategies
Summary/Abstract: At the center of this article is the figure of the refugee, which I have interrogated in a previous analysis, considering it as a „radical metamorphosis of the stranger” (cf. Orbova 2014). In this article, I will try to analyze this image through discursive practices and strategies of hate that construct it and fill it with social sense and meanings, but as an „essentially negative Other”. The explication of these prepredicative evidences and inconsistencies in the language contained in the discourse on refugees is the starting point from which we could draw conclusions not just about who the Refugee is as an ideal type, as a form of strangeness, but also about the two-way relationships of the differentiation by which it is constructed. The practical logical forms of thinking and of expressing the otherness of the Refugee construct not a homogeneous image, but many of its figures that begin to construct at many different levels that generalized everyday notion which stigmatizes, rejects and does not tolerate the Different.

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