03 June 2022

Thematic Focus: Persons with Disabilities & Older People

Opportunity:

Book forum: The Refugee Status of Persons with Disabilities, 8 June 2022 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Facebook group helps Ukrainian refugees with autistic children (InfoMigrants, April 2022) [text]

"Here’s what Ukrainians with disabilities face as we cope with war," The New Humanitarian, 18 April 2022 [text]

"'I live on crumbs': why older Algerians are risking the small boats to Spain," The Guardian, 29 April 2022 [text]

Reports:

Curso sobre respuestas inclusivas para personas refugiadas y migrantes con discapacidad - Módulo 1: Sujetos de derechos, "las personas con discapacidad su participación y plena inclusión" (ACNUR & RIADIS, April 2022) [text]

Facilitators Guide: Working with Persons with Disabilities in Forced Displacement (UNHCR, May 2022) [text]

Including Persons with Disabilities in Disaster Risk Reduction: A Research Study from Eight Countries of Africa, Asia and South/Central America (Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund et al., 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also French and Spanish versions.

Last to Flee: Older People’s Experience of War Crimes and Displacement in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict (Amnesty International, May 2022) [access]
- Language versions available include English, Armenian & Russian.

“Life in a box”: Older People’s Experiences of Displacement and Prospects for Return in Azerbaijan (Amnesty International, May 2022) [access]
- Language versions available include English, Azerbaijani & Russian.

A review of disability inclusion for refugees in Ethiopia and recommendations for future practice (Research & Evidence Facility, May 2022) [text]
- See also related blog post.

UNHCR’s approach to forcibly displaced and stateless persons with disabilities (UNHCR, 2022) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"African Elderly Refugees’ Perspectives on Needs Assessment and Response Processes in Refugee Camps in Uganda," Chapter in Minding the Gaps and Challenging the Change in Social Work: International Research in Poland under Erasmus Mundus ADVANCES (Univ. of Warsaw Press, 2021) [ResearchGate]
- Scroll to p. 93.

"COVID-19 and 'ageing well' for the older migrants and refugees in rural Australia: the case of Bhutanese elders in Albury, New South Wales," Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, EarlyCite, 17 May 2022 [open access]

"The Health of People with Disabilities in Humanitarian Settings During the Covid-19 Pandemic," IDS Bulletin, vol. 53, no. 2 (April 2022) [open access]

"Older people: forgotten victims amid the Ukrainian humanitarian disaster," The Lancet Public Health, vol. 7, no. 5 (May 2022) [open access]

"Older Refugees and Internally Displaced People in African Countries: Findings from a Scoping Review of Literature," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 10 May 2022 [open access]

"'Swallow medicine, eat rice, pray about health': health, health care and health-seeking experiences of South-East Asian older refugees," Ageing & Society, FirstView, 23 March 2022 [open access]
- Focuses on the US.

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