23 February 2023

Thematic Focus: People with Disabilities & Older People

Barriers to durable solutions experienced by persons with disabilities: a rapid consultation (IOM, Feb. 2023) [access]
- Report is available in English, Arabic and Kurdish.

"Children and Youth with Flight and Migration Experiences Affected by Disability and Medical Fragility: Challenges at the Intersection of Asylum Law and Disability Law in Germany," QRP: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, vol. 61, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

Disability and older age inclusion in humanitarian action: Innovation Catalogue (ELRHA, Dec. 2022) [text]

Disability Inclusive Early Childhood Development and Education in Humanitarian Settings (IDS, Jan. 2023) [text]

"Disasters are a disability issue," Politico, 6 Jan. 2023 [text]

"Grandmothers Behind the Scenes: Subordinate Integration, Care Work, and Power in Syrian Canadian Refugee Resettlement," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 38, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

Included, Every Step of the Way: Upholding the rights of migrant and displaced children with disabilities (UNICEF, Feb. 2023) [text]

Leave No One Behind: People with Disabilities and Older People in Climate-Related Disasters (Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2022) [text]

"Measuring Disability Among Migrant People in Urban Area," Chapter in Equity in Health and Health Promotion in Urban Areas: Multidisciplinary Interventions at International and National Level (Springer, 2023) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 215. Focuses on Italy. See also earlier related journal article.

"A qualitative study of older refugees’ perception and attitudes towards dementia and dementia risk reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic," Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, vol. 18, no. S8 (Dec. 2022) [free full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Refugee Race-Ability: Bodies, Lands, Worlds," Chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives (Routledge, 2023) [open access]
- "This chapter develops a framework that brings the fields of Critical Refugee Studies and Critical Disability Studies together to revisit the histories and afterlives of the Cold War in Cambodia, where three decades of 'hot' fighting on Cambodian territory resulted in the widespread physical and psychological impairment of over 4 million Cambodian people."

"Significant Hearing Loss Found in Ukrainian Refugees," The Hearing Journal, vol. 76, no. 2 (Feb. 2023) [free full-text]

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