This article draws on research with and about refugees from across the Middle East and North Africa and examines the current Syrian refugee crisis through the tropes of visibility and invisibility. Adopting a deconstructive framework, it purposefully centralizes what has previously been assigned a peripheral position throughout the ever-expanding “archive of knowledge” (following Foucault) vis-a-vis particular refugee situations and critically interrogates how, why, and with what effect only certain bodies, identity markers, and models of humanitarian response become hypervisible in the European public sphere. The article starts by tracing the roles of visibility and invisibility in constituting the “ideal refugee” (and the concomitant figure of the “a-refugee”), before turning to refugee-refugee humanitarianism as an invisible form of Southern-led (rather than Northern-led or Northern-dominated) responses to displacement from Syria.

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对来自中东和北非的流离失所的镇压

本文借鉴了对来自中东和北非各地的难民的研究，并通过可见性和不可见性的比喻来审视当前的叙利亚难民危机。采用解构性框架，它有目的地将在不断扩大的“知识档案”（遵循福柯）中针对特定难民情况的先前分配的边缘位置集中起来，并批判性地询问如何，为什么以及仅产生什么影响某些机构、身份标记和人道主义响应模型在欧洲公共领域变得可见。文章首先追溯了可见性和不可见性在构成“理想难民”（以及“a-难民”的伴随形象）中的作用，