ABSTRACT
The employment of the interactional approach to the issue of ignorance and change displays a stubborn proclivity towards categorization. This manifests, for instance, in the identification and discussion of ignorance-related effects. The categorization pattern reveals that the interactional framing is itself vulnerable to certain analytical tendencies that it was supposed to overcome, thus raising the question of how this can all be given a broader meaning. The chapter answers this challenge in three steps. In the first instance, it integrates the ignorance-related effects of interaction between ignorance and projection in a manner that reveals the logic of ignorance in the context of the European refugee crisis and the ways in which it changed. Afterwards, it looks at mechanisms of projection triggered in the context of the refugee crisis. Finally, it investigates the role played by ignorance in the emergence of projections which aim to reify the future of asylum public policy in Poland, Hungary, and Romania, or to stipulate how this future should look. The three approaches not only complement the understanding of the refugee crisis but also show how ignorance change is contingent on, and reactive to projection change, or that in order for ignorance to change, the manner in which the future is envisaged has to change also.
