Бежанецът като социоаналитичен казус
The Refugee as a Socioanalytical Case

The Contradictions of Self-Inheritance

Author(s): Tanya Orbova
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Logic, Social Philosophy, Sociology
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: refugee; vulnerability; social suffering; socioanalysis
Summary/Abstract: In this article I analyze the specific suffering and vulnerabilities of refugees as forms of positional suffering – а vulnerability” research project and using the methodology, integrated in the project of socioanalytical protocol.. The article seeks to reverse the focus – not the refugees that “invade us”, but how the condition of becoming a refugee takes over the individual and reduces their identity to a singular characteristic. The term “refugee” in this paper does not refer to a judicial understanding, but covers different groups of people, multiple meanings and it is part of symbolic field within which conflicting discourses and power mechanisms encounter. I will try to emphasize that the vulnerability of the refugees is specific in double sense. On one hand, it is rooted in the anti-immigrant rhetoric and politics in Europe, institutional discriminations, and the repressions (political, economic, or both) that have led to seeking asylum. This vulnerability, on the other hand, arises from the singularity and so-called “endogenous logic” of each case. Following Bourdieu`s idea of “positional suffering, experienced from the inside of the microcosm” I understand the interview, under scrutiny in the article, is “at once unique and general”. I demonstrate how in the biographical narrative a fractured social experience is rationalized, simultaneously accepted and rejected. The narrative generates certain internal tensions, which can be understood (after Bourdieu) as contradictions of self-inheritance.

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