“Mi i oni” – kako pristupamo izbjegličkom drugom? Kulturnoantropološko propitivanje terenskog iskustva u Slavoniji

In this paper the author rethinks her experience of volunteering and interaction with refugees at border crossings, as well as in temporary accommodation centers, in Slavonia. The paper is mainly based on the author’s experience of participant observation conducted on several occasions between September and December of 2015, while volunteering for the Welcome Initiative. The author draws attention to the problems with two of the most common discourses on refugee crisis, securitization on the one hand, and humanitarianism on the other, which although seemingly diametrically opposed, share the very same starting point of refugees as radical Others. Furthermore, the last part of the paper deals with the question of power inscribed into the spaces of temporary accommodation of refugees. Here, the author argues that the spatial and functional organization of the temporary accommodation centers was not a coincidence, but was rather deliberately designed so that the power relations of those who managed and monitored over the centers, and those who temporarily stayed in them, remained clear at any time.Autorica propituje vlastito terensko iskustvo volontiranja i interakcije s izbjeglicama na graničnim prijelazima te u privremenim prihvatnim centrima u Slavoniji. Rad se stoga bazira na iskustvu sudjelovanja s promatranjem kroz koje je autorica, kao volonterka Inicijative Dobrodošli, prošla višekratno u razdoblju od kraja rujna do sredine prosinca 2015. godine. Autorica upozorava na problematičnost dvaju najčešće prisutnih diskursa o “izbjegličkoj krizi”: onog sigurnosnog s jedne strane, te onog humanitarizacijskog s druge, koji iako naoko dijametralno suprotni, kreću od iste polazišne točke izbjeglica kao radikalno Drugih. U posljednjem dijelu rada propituje moć upisanu u prostor privremenog smještaja, ukazujući kako prostorna i funkcionalna organizacija privremenih prihvatnih centara nije bila slučajnost, nego je osmišljena kako bi odnosi moći onih koji su centre nadgledali i njima upravljali te onih koji su u njima privremeno boravili u svakom trenutku tijekom rada prihvatnih centara ostali jasno naznačeni