Abstract
The conflict-inflicted protracted internal displacement situation in
Ukraine is marked with social capital redistribution caused by mass and
socially complicated influx of forced migration-affected persons into
host communities, and restructuring of the latter. The study is based on
the regional survey data provided in the UN Social Cohesion and
Reconciliation Index for Eastern Ukraine, and National Monitoring System
Reports on the Situation of Internally Displaced Persons, 2018-2019. The
limitations of the discourse principle realization are viewed through
the migration-related indicators of social capital, burden, and
(in)visibility. There is also suggested a discussion of the
policy-framing outcomes imposed by the imaginative contexts of
“burden” and “social capital resource” being applied to newcomers in
a host community; and the power implementation based on anopticism and
panopticism as deviations of vulnerable groups visibility in the
communities, as well as the groups being excluded from agenda-forming at
the local level due to pseudoassimilation or state-imposed measures of
control. In the article, there is outlined a project of Anopticism and
Panopticism Index, AP Index, that is considered to contribute to
understanding of visibility of the displaced persons, their access to
decision-making, and sense of belonging to the community, as well as the
common perspectives of newcomers and locals within a receiving
community. This study is aimed at provoking discussion on including the
indicators of vulnerable group visibility deviations, as well as social
capital vs. burden, in the context of victimization counteracting, into
the migration-related surveys.