17 November 2022

Thematic Focus: Persons with Disabilities & Older People

Opportunity:

Panel: Persons with disabilities in armed conflicts: from invisibility to visibility, Online, 1 December 2022 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Disability and Asylum Law (ImmigrationProf Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Leaving Ukraine: A story about helping people with disabilities escape the war in Ukraine (Think Global Health, Oct. 2022) [text]

Shortfalls in data exclude older people from humanitarian responses (Bond News & Views, Sept. 2022) [text]

Supporting Ukrainian refugees with print disabilities (EIFL Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Humanitarian conditions for older people in conflict affected Ukraine, Ukrainian Crisis Analysis Brief (Data Friendly Space, Nov. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb] 
- See also related HelpAge report.

"Inclusive education in a refugee camp for children with disabilities: How are school setting and children’s behavioral functioning related?," Conflict and Health, 16:53 (Oct. 2022) [open access]
- Focuses on Kenya.

"Inclusive educational transitions for refugees with disabilities: Intersectionality and the right to inclusive education," Chapter in Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education: Ruptures, Passages, and Re-Orientations (Verlag Barbara Budrich, Nov. 2022) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 33.

International Review of the Red Cross [contents]
- Watch for a forthcoming issue that focuses on "Persons with Disabilities in Armed Conflicts."

Invisible dentro de lo Invisible: La situación de las personas con discapacidad física y sensorial refugiadas y migrantes en América Latina (Danish Council for Refugees, Sept. 2022) [text]

Pakistan Floods: Rapid Needs Assessment of Older People (HelpAge, Oct. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Promising practices of disability inclusion in addressing disaster displacement," Forced Migration Review, no. 69 (March 2022) [open access]

"Social Networks and Support to Older People in Refugee Situation in Western Countries: A Scoping Review Protocol," Social Science Protocols, vol. 5, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

Multimedia:

Linking Wartime Trauma to Dementia in Vietnamese American Communities (Unfold Podcast, Nov. 2022) [access]

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