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Including the missing voices of disabled people in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
- Authors:
- UNWIN Peter, MEAKIN Becki, JONES Alexandra
- Publisher:
- University of Worcester
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 54
- Place of publication:
- Worcester
Findings of a research project exploring why the voices of disabled Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) members are missing and whether there is any potential for the concerns of these communities to be heard in service and policy arenas. A mixed methods approach was adopted, including a literature review, focus groups and surveys for Deaf and Disabled Peoples Organisations (DDPOs) (n.160) and GRT communities. The research found that: cultural legacies of shame and stigma regarding Disabled community members remained, with some evidence that such views were changing; DDPOs do not reach out pro-actively to Disabled GRT people in their communities; a few say they have some GRT members but most say ‘our doors are open to all’, which does not facilitate inclusion; there was a low level of interest shown in the Missing Voices project by DDPOs, many of whom were struggling to survive in times of austerity; some Disabled people in GRT communities may be sheltered in ways that mean they do not fully realise their potentials; there were mixed views across the nations about whether GRT communities would use ‘mainstream’ DDPOs as a way of having their missing voices heard; the role of ‘community connectors’ were seen by community members and the research team as critical links; while their nomadic lifestyle becomes marginalised, conditions for Disabled people within housing may have better facilities than on the road but the loss of immediate community is believed to have led to greater incidence of loneliness and mental health, suicide rates among men being extremely high; there exists a culture in which GRT men do not acknowledge illness / disability as it is seen as a weakness; Life expectancies of Gypsies and Travellers remain some 10-12 years lower than other UK residents. (Edited publisher abstract)
Reporting disability in the age of austerity: the changing face of media representation of disability and disabled people in the United Kingdom and the creation of new ‘folk devils’
- Authors:
- BRIANT Emma, WATSON Nick, PHILO Gregory
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 28(6), 2013, pp.874-889.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Following its election in 2010 the UK’s Coalition Government has sought to implement radical restructuring of disability-related benefits justified by reference to the financial crises of 2007/08. In this article we examine how these changes have impacted on coverage of disability in the UK media comparing and contrasting coverage of disability in newspapers in 2010/11 with a similar period in 2004/05. Our analysis suggests that disabled people have become a ‘folk devil’ and that there has been a significant change in the way that disability is reported. Newspaper coverage in 2010/11 was less sympathetic and there was an increase in articles that focused on disability benefit and fraud, and an increase in the use of pejorative language to describe disabled people. An audience reception study suggests that this coverage is having an impact on the way that people think about disabled people. (Publisher abstract)
Environmental hazard and disabled people: from vulnerable to expert to interconnected
- Authors:
- ABBOTT David, PORTER Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 28(6), 2013, pp.839-852.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Why are disabled people disproportionately affected by the impacts of environmental hazard, and is it really only their relative poverty that makes them so vulnerable? What might disabled people contribute from their experience of negotiating barriers to designing responses to the challenges of environmental hazard? Can the lived experience of inter-dependency, as opposed to individual independence, contribute to the radical rethinking of our relationships with the environment, other sentient beings and each other? Drawing on a short scoping study, this article reviews the multiple causes of disabled people’s vulnerability, and goes on to ask whether the experience disabled people enables them to become valued contributors, rather than just members of a vulnerable group. We also explore possible reasons for the lack of inclusion and diversity within the environmental movement, and suggest that the disability and environmental movements might make a more common cause. (Publisher abstract)
Digital exclusion profiling of vulnerable groups: adults with learning disabilities: a profile
- Authors:
- CITIZENS ONLINE, NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Communities and Local Government
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This profile considers the group 'adults with learning disabilities'. It aims to understand group members' actual and potential interaction with technology. The starting point of the profile is to understand the life circumstances of group members through desk-based research. Our understanding of group members' (potential) engagement with technology has been developed largely through primary
Mind the gap: the next step: disabled people’s experiences with Scottish public transport
- Author:
- McQUIGG Ryan
- Publisher:
- Leonard Cheshire Disability
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
'Mind the gap: the next step' aims to build on Leonard Cheshire Disability previous reports, Mind the Gap (2003) and 'Into the unknown' (2008) which examined the barriers faced by disabled people when it comes to accessing public transport and the impact this had on disabled people. A survey of 213 disabled people from across Scotland was carried out and several focus groups facilitated in order to explore the public transport usage of Scotland's disabled people, while also exploring the impact that inaccessible transport can have on disabled people's social exclusion. Key findings include that 70% of respondents stated that they cannot rely on public transport. These findings show that inaccessible transport has a direct and negative impact on the lives of disabled people in Scotland.
Disability poverty in the UK: executive summary
- Author:
- LEONARD CHESHIRE DISABILITY
- Publisher:
- Leonard Cheshire Disability
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Disability Poverty in the UK is a report that not only looks at financial poverty but also poverty of opportunity and emotional poverty that disabled people face in the UK. The primary recommendations of this report are that the government commits to: 1) End disability poverty, by developing and implementing a specific strategy for tackling the issue 2)Measure disability poverty as a unique form of poverty, through the use of a series of indicators. The report sets out other recommendations to the government to tackle disability poverty in the UK and the publication on 8 January 2008 will be followed by extensive parliamentary lobbying work.
Disability poverty in the UK
- Author:
- PARCKAR Guy
- Publisher:
- Leonard Cheshire Disability
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Disability Poverty in the UK is a report that not only looks at financial poverty but also poverty of opportunity and emotional poverty that disabled people face in the UK. The primary recommendations of this report are that the government commits to: 1) End disability poverty, by developing and implementing a specific strategy for tackling the issue 2)Measure disability poverty as a unique form of poverty, through the use of a series of indicators. The report sets out other recommendations to the government to tackle disability poverty in the UK and the publication on 8 January 2008 will be followed by extensive parliamentary lobbying work.
Disabled people as counterfeit citizens: the politics of resentment past and present
- Author:
- HUGHES Bill
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 30(7), 2015, pp.991-1004.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In this article the author argues that disabled people in the United Kingdom have been tipped into an abyss of counterfeit citizenship. They have been smeared as ‘false mendicants’ – an old trick well documented in the historical archives of ableism. Neoliberalism has used this repertoire of invalidation – its noxious taint of cunning and fraud – as the ‘moral justification’ for welfare reform and for the pillory and notoriety into which the entire disabled community has been placed. Austerity – through the neoliberal politics of resentment – has made disabled people its scapegoat. The author argues that a historical precedent for the contemporary demonisation of disabled people as counterfeit citizens can be found in the early modern period in the mythology of the ‘sturdy beggar’. (Edited publisher abstract)
Back to the future, disability and the digital divide
- Authors:
- MACDONALD Stephen J., CLAYTON John
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 28(5), 2013, pp.702-718.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This research uses a quantitative methodology to investigate the impact of digital technologies on improving the life-chances for disabled people from deprived neighbourhoods in the northeast of England. The study explores how disabled people engage with digital and assistive technologies in order to overcome disabling barriers and social exclusion. The analysis found no evidence that digital and assistive technologies had any impact on reducing social exclusion for disabled people. The research discovered that these technologies seemed to construct new forms of disabling barriers as a consequence of the digital divide. (Edited publisher abstract)
Exclusion of HIV-positive people with disabilities in the media
- Author:
- GHAJARIEH Amir Biglar Beigi
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 27(7), 2012, pp.1025-1028.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article addresses the harmful exclusion of people with disabilities in the Iranian media. In a case study, this author collected news related to statistics of HIV-positive people covered by popular news websites written in the Persian language between June 2011 and June 2012. Findings revealed that no reference was made to the number of HIV-positive people with disabilities. This lack of representation may be linked to a more general level of discourse that constitutes the marginalisation of people with disabilities. This damaging exclusion both legitimises and reproduces the ideology that people with disabilities are social minorities who can be excluded to the benefit of powerful people. The author discusses the potential negative consequences of excluding HIV-positive people with disabilities from the discourse of HIV/AIDS in the media. The author concludes that the reasons for the Iranian government failure to publish the statistics of HIV-positive people with disabilities will be ultimately provided.