Disability and forced migration : critical connections and the global south debate

Abstract

Disability and forced migration are still seldom placed together at the epistemological level, and only recently at the policy and practice levels. When they are addressed, though, they are too often seen through a vulnerability lens. As a result, disabled refugees the various intersectionalities, remain on the peripheries of migration, disability, development, humanitarian and human rights discourses, and when they are ‘seen’, they are approached in a way that disempowers and denies their agency. This chapter seeks to critically explore the discursive and practice intersections of disability and forced migration, positioning this debate within the broader human rights and global South landscape.