Crisis, Ψ-trauma, refugees

Since 2014 the situation in Mediterranean Sea has been named and tackled as a ‘refugee crisis’, name of this ‘crisis’ migrants have accommodated ‘hotspots’ camps. Within these spaces, their experiences often articulated by humanitarian sector discipline psychology traumatic, with refugees being described traumatised. In article, I critically discuss politics trauma within European territory aid, specific focus on Greece, amid current, so-called crisis’. start situating crisis concepts role state governance. continue discussing how terms ‘hotspot’ ‘camp’ emerged discourse practice, to explore then there. Both space time are important elements for understanding psychology, they comprise material landscape migration At same time, discourses implicated very production spaces. Approaching interconnection through lens critical work Frantz Fanon, article concludes that gaze aid besides medicalising refugees, psychologises inherently political issues life lived hotspots so doing, it substitutes latter managerial discourse.