1st Edition

Moving Beyond Boundaries in Disability Studies Rights, Spaces and Innovations

Edited By Michele Moore Copyright 2013
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

What challenges are posed by changing transnational trends, agendas and movements that affect disabled people’s lives, and what can disabled people, their representative organisations and their governments do to advance the agenda for self-determination and inclusion? This book draws together the writing of academics and activists to depict the experience and perspective of disabled people in... Read more

Foreword Michele Moore

1. Crossing boundaries: foreign funding and disability rights activism in a context of war Samantha Wehbi

2. Disability and cross-border mobility: comparing resettlement experiences of Cambodian and Somali refugees with disabilities Mansha Mirza

3. Between protection and assistance: is there refuge for asylum seekers with disabilities in Europe? Clara Straimer

4. "I never expected to be a disabled person in another country": the stories of migrant workers with acquired disabilities in Korea Kyung Mee Kim

5. Views of disability in Portugal: ‘fado’ or citizenship? Ema Loja, Emilia Costa and Isabel Menezes

6. Navajo and autism: the beauty of harmony Steven K. Kapp

7. Disabled women and transnational feminisms: shifting boundaries and frontiers Miriam Arenas Conejo

8. Visualising a safe space: the perspective of people using mental health day services Wendy Bryant, Adrian Tibbs and John Clark

9. Complementing or conflicting human rights conventions? Realising an inclusive approach to families with a young person with a disability and challenging behaviour Kristy Muir and Beth Goldblatt

10. Shifting boundaries in sports technology and disability: equal rights or unfair advantage in the case of Oscar Pistorius? Brendan Burkett, Mike McNamee and Wolfgang Potthast

11. Current issues: The World Report on Disability Jerome Bickenbach

Biography

Michele Moore is Senior Lecturer in Inclusive Education in the Faculty of Policy & Society at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.