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Disabling migration controls : shared learning, solidarity, and collective resistance / Rebecca Yeo
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Routledge advances in disability studiesPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:- 9781040096796
- 9781040096833
- 9781003362067
- Refugees -- Great Britain
- Immigrants -- Great Britain
- People with disabilities -- Great Britain
- Discrimination against people with disabilities -- Great Britain
- Asylum, Right of -- Great Britain
- Emigration and immigration law -- Great Britain
- Protest movements -- Great Britain
- Political participation -- Great Britain
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Handicapped
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
- 323.3/70941 23/eng/20240426
- JV7682
Contents:
Summary: "When people are prevented from meeting their needs, the impact is disabling, whether in the immigration system or in the wider population. Drawing on many years of research and activism, this book argues that insights from the disabled people's movement, particularly the original Social Model of Disability, can be usefully extended to focus resistance on the disabling restrictions imposed on people subject to asylum and immigration controls. While acknowledging the pain and discomfort of many impairments and of forced displacement, the book focuses on injustices that can be changed. It does not catalogue the hostility of the 'hostile environment'. Nor does it promote inclusive asylum restrictions. An unjust system is not transformed by including disabled people. Policies designed to deprive people of essential needs and to stoke hatred among the wider population are core elements of the rise of fascism. In this context, bringing together movements for disability and migrant justice could help build urgently needed solidarity and resistance with which to develop a society based on equity and common humanity. Quotations and images are used to convey the messages and priorities of disabled people seeking asylum, ensuring that the book is both engaging and grounded in the insights of lived experience. This book will interest people seeking to improve social justice, including scholars of disability, migration, sociology, and politics"--PPN: PPN: 1916209882Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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