Thematic Focus: Persons with Disabilities & Older People

Blog posts & press:

Drought, displacement and disabilities: The challenges facing IDPs with disabilities in Ethiopia and ways forward for more inclusive action (IDMC Blog, June 2021) [text]

IPC announces six athletes to compete for the Refugee Paralympic Team at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games: Joint IPC/UNHCR Press Release (June 2021) [text]

- See also related news story.

Reports: 

Bridging a Protection Gap: Disability and the Refugee Convention (Helen Bamber Foundation, April 2021) [text]

Discapacidad y Movilidad Humana: Estudio regional sobre la situación de las personas con discapacidad refugiadas, desplazadas y migrantes en América Latina (ACNUR & RIADIS, April 2021) [access]

- Follow link for study and annexes.

Facilitator’s Guide: Strengthening Protection of Persons with Disabilities in Forced Displacement (UNHCR, July 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Inclusive Client Responsiveness: Focus on People with Disabilities and Older People (International Rescue Committee, July 2021) [access]

- Follow link to access guidance and tools.

Persons with disabilities in the context of internal displacement: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/44/41 (UN Human Rights Council, May 2020) [text]

- Background info about this report and inputs received from states and civil society can be accessed via OHCHR.

Journal articles:

"English Language Proficiency Among Older Migrants in Australia, 2016–2046," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 11 June 2021 [free full-text]

"Immigration, Disability and Healthcare Access in Brazil," Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

"The impact of COVID-19 on older refugees," Forced Migration Review, no. 67 (July 2021) [open access]

- Focuses on Uganda.

"Older migrants and loneliness: scanning the field and looking forward," European Journal of Ageing, Latest Articles, 4 Aug. 2021 [free full-text]

- Editorial for special section in forthcoming issue.

"Using a community-based system dynamics approach for understanding inclusion and wellbeing: a case study of special needs education in an eastern African refugee camp," Conflict and Health, 15:58 (July 2021) [open access]

"We are Aging Too! Exploring the Social Impact of Late-life Migration among Older Immigrants in the United States," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 5 July 2021 [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Persons with Disabilities & Older People (3 June 2021)