Thematic Focus: People with Disabilities & Older People

Short pieces:

Sport, displacement and disability: how sport rebuilds communities and scales impact (International Platform on Sport and Development, April 2025) [text] 

UN Committee [on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities] Criticizes Canada’s Immigration Detention Practices (HRW, March 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Accessible Services for Deaf Immigrants and Refugees in the United States: Exploring the Capacity of Deaf-Serving Organizations," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 11 (2025) [open access]

"Confucian Perspective on Death in the Refugees Struggling to Survive: An Implication from The Decade of a Vietnamese Refugee Girl," Bulletin of Asia-Pacific Studies, vol. 27, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

"The Definition Dilemma: How Definitions of Disability Shape Statistics on Social Participation," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 22, no. 4 (April 2025) [open access]

- "This study aims to assess the relationship between three different measures of disability and the level of participation of persons with disabilities. We analysed data from a population-based survey of disability amongst Syrian refugees in Istanbul...."

Dementia in refugees and migrants: epidemiology, public health implications and global health responses (WHO, March 2025) [access]

"(Dis)Ability and Medical Conditions in Canadian Refugee Resettlement," Chapter in Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024) [open access]

- Scroll to p. 192. See also related video.

"Exacerbating exclusion? How the logic of refugee education perpetuates the exclusion of refugees with disabilities in Lebanon," International Review of Education, Latest Articles, 22 March 2025 [open access]

HERE’s What We Know about the Educational Inclusion of Refugees with Disabilities in Europe (Hub for Education for Refugees in Europe, Feb. 2025) [text]

"Prevention of, and response to, sexual and gender-based violence, for refugees who experience communication disability: Evidence from Rwanda," International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Latest Articles, 16 April 2025 [open access]

The Voice of Refugees with Disabilities: Recommendations for Development Cooperation in Jordan (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

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