January 31, Friday, at 6 pm (Kyiv time)
Speaker: Svitlana Balinchenko is a Senior Researcher at the Department of History of Foreign Philosophy, H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, NAS of Ukraine. Since 2001, she has studied the integration tendencies and choices of Ukraine through the perspective of social philosophy. Since the war-triggered internal displacement from Donetsk oblast in 2014, the focus of the research has shifted to the democracy, social cohesion, and solidarity challenges in the context of the war impact on the social-cultural space of Ukraine, in particular, migrants’ visibility in host communities, as well as postwar scenarios for the currently Russia-occupied parts of Ukraine.
Seminar Title: Visibility Contexts of Migration in Ukraine
Seminar Description: The seminar will be focused on migration studies in Ukraine, 2014-2024. The tendencies associated with different waves of war-triggered internal displacement in Ukraine will be reviewed through the social-philosophical context of (hyper-/hypo-/in-) visibility. The wider discussable aspects include the changes in social cohesion, resilience, and integration expectations in communities due to blind-spot and ritournelle effects accumulated during the massive protracted internal displacement to the government-controlled regions of Ukraine, since 2014.
Key topics include:· Data- and access-related gaps in Ukrainian migration studies during the war.
- Actual discussions on visibility, integration, and acculturation in social philosophy(migration studies).
- IDPs’ visibility through the lenses of power and decision-making: wave-1 effect.
- Primary/secondary internal displacement and return: blind-spot and ritournelle effects.
- Perspectives of migration studies in Ukraine.
The seminar will provide an opportunity to discuss the methodological and conceptual challenges associated with studying internal displacement during the war and the impact of discourses on the perception of migration-related contexts and vulnerabilities.
