Thematic Focus: Persons with Disabilities

Event:

RightsTalk: Refugees with Disabilities - Overlooked and Underserved, Sydney, 8 April 2019 [info]

Publications:

Asylum Seekers and Refugees with Intellectual Disabilities in Europe (Social Connectedness, July 2018) [text]

Barriers and Exclusions: The Support Needs of Newly Arrived Refugees with a Disability (Refugee Council of Australia et al., Feb. 2019) [text]

Briefing Note on the Status of Civilians Who Acquired Disabilities Due to the Armed Conflict in Eastern Ukraine (Norwegian Refugee Council, Feb. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

"The Changing Face of Disability and Refugee Services and Policy in Australia: Implications for Social Work," Social Work and Policy Studies: Social Justice, Practice and Theory, vol. 2, no. 1 (2019) [open access]

Disability Data Collection: A Summary Review of the Use of the Washington Group Questions by Development and Humanitarian Actors (Leonard Cheshire and Humanity & Inclusion, Oct. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

"An Ethnographic Study of Deaf Refugees Seeking Asylum in Finland," Societies, vol. 9, no. 1 (Jan. 2019) [open access]

Legal Protection for the World’s Most Vulnerable (Univ. of Sydney Law School, March 2019) [text]
- See also related IMR book review.

Life with a Disability in the Migrant Caravan (Human Rights Watch, Dec. 2018) [text]

"Refugee Children with Communication Disability in Rwanda: Providing the Educational Services They Need," Forced Migration Review, no. 60 (March 2019) [open access]

"Stasis in Flight: Reframing Disability and Dependence in the Refugee," Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 1 (2019) [open access]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Persons with Disabilities & Older People (6 Dec. 2018)

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