Representaciones sociales y victimización: Una mirada desde las víctimas del desplazamiento forzado en Montería

Abstract

The Colombian armed conflict leaves millions of people victims of internal migration, which implies the obligation of people to interact with regulatory frameworks that seek to reestablish their rights and the institutions that execute it. All of the above mobilizes psychological, social, administrative and judicial processes that transcend from the individual to the collective and vice versa; These aspects have been little visible and demand to be studied from different disciplines; Thus, the present study sought to recognize from a qualitative and psycho-legal perspective the social representations that arise in this population as a result of the aforementioned dynamics, through the application of 20 group and individual interviews with displaced population in Montería. As a result, common sense towards regulations expressing ideas of: dissatisfaction, abandonment, revictimization and ineffectiveness is evident; An element that specifies care is the adaptation of the language of the victims that incorporates legal elements as a resilient adaptive response in its own framework of representation of the law. The article ends by proposing a question around the notion of <Psycho-legal Representation> as a proposal to advance towards studies in dissimilar legal contexts.