14 December 2022

Thematic Focus: People with Disabilities & Older People

Blog posts & press:

Threadbare disability support faces uncertain future in Bangladesh refugee camps (UNHCR, Dec. 2022) [text]

Reports:

Advancing Disability-inclusive Action on Internal Displacement (IDMC, Dec. 2022) [text]

Ensuring the Protection of Persons with Disabilities Fleeing from Ukraine (UNHCR & European Disability Forum, Dec. 2022) [text]

“I Used to Have a Home”: Older People’s Experience of War, Displacement, and Access to Housing in Ukraine (Amnesty International, Dec. 2022) [text]

Persons with disabilities in situations of risk: A scoping study on Article 11 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNDRR, 2022) [text via PreventionWeb]

Russia’s war on Ukraine: People with disabilities (EPRS, Nov. 2022) [text]

Safeguards for asylum applicants with disabilities (EUAA, Nov. 2022) [text]

Journal articles:

"Experiences of Abuse and Neglect of Older Adults in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp, Lugbe, Abuja, Nigeria," Journal of Population Ageing, Latest Articles, 26 Aug. 2022 [ResearchGate]

International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 105, nos. 922 (April 2023) [full-text]
- Issue theme is "Persons with disabilities in armed conflict."

"More than just Forced Migrants: Using Intersectionality to Understand the Challenges and Experiences of Older Refugees in Western Societies," Journal of Social Work in Developing Societies, vol. 4, no. 2 (Nov. 2022) [open access]

"'Older people tend to be invisible': a qualitative study exploring the needs and inclusion of older Syrian refugees in the context of compounding crises in host country, Lebanon," Conflict and Health, 16:61 (Nov. 2022) [open access]

"Practice reflection: How social workers can use an internationality lens to understand recent older refugees falling through the cracks in services: Using Vancouver, Canada, as an example," International Social Work, OnlineFirst, 5 Dec. 2022 [open access]

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