The article is devoted to the study of social alienation during foreign occupation, which has theoretical (formation of a new theoretical view on the nature of this social process) and practical (development of the state policy of de-occupation and reintegration of the South of Ukraine) prerequisites. The purpose of the article was to determine and empirically verify the main directions of social exclusion under enemy rule. Based on the methodological principles of existential philosophy, neo -Marxism, psychological theories of alienation, the ideas of M. Auger and M. Castells regarding the structuring of social spaces, an in-depth interview with residents of the right -bank Kherson region who were under Russian occupation in March - November 2022 was determined by the method of empirical research. In the course of the study, four forms of social alienation were distinguished - existential, spatial, praxeological and group, each of which characterizes a certain aspect of social relations in the occupation; the general trend towards the growth of social marginalization and anomie is determined; the transformation of public space into a territory of danger and its further ghettoization was ascertained; active use of fear and terror by the occupying power as tools of social coercion has been proven. The researcher emphasizes that under the enemy government, the main factor of social alienation is the hostile attitude towards the person on the part of the state, which is represented by the occupiers, and the social institutions captured by them, the imposition of unwanted and unacceptable values and models of social role behavior on our compatriots. The authors come to a conclusion about the formation of a special form of social alienation in the occupation - moral homelessness, which is characterized by the loss of social subjectivity and the minimization of social activity due to an all-encompassing feeling of fear. At the same time, there is an artificial narrowing and deformation of the structure of social space, the destruction of the boundaries between public and private against the background of the arbitrariness of the authorities and the absolute insecurity of the population. People feel like strangers in their own homes, and the main source of fear is not military actions, but the occupation order.
