Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists demonstrate that disabled people can change their social status by transforming the political and legal discourse surrounding disablement. Employing tools from the fields of law and history, this original contribution explores how disabled people have been portrayed and treated in a variety of contexts, including within the labour market, the workers’ compensation system, the immigration process, and the legal system (both as litigants and as lawyers). It deepens our knowledge of the role of people with disabilities within social movements in disability history. The contributors encourage us to rethink our understanding of both the systemic barriers disabled people face and the capacity of disabled people to effect positive societal change.
| ISBN: | 9780774835237 |
| Publication date: | 15th October 2017 |
| Author: | Ravi Malhotra |
| Publisher: | University of British Columbia Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 244 pages |
| Series: | Disability Culture and Politics |
| Genres: |
Disability: social aspects Society and culture: general Central / national / federal government policies Disability and the law |