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The disabled body in refugee law
Dr. Andreas Dimopoulos
Brunel University
Introduction
• The interpretation and application of refugee law to
persons with disabilities reflects national legal and
social practices towards disability
• United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities (CRPD) has had limited impact
• AC (Egypt), [2011] NZIPT 800015, New Zealand:
Immigration and Protection Tribunal, 25 November
2011
• SHH v UK (App No 60367/10), judgment of 29 January
2013
Disability and IHRL
• Disability rights movement
• Social model of Disability
• CRPD
• Impact of CRPD on the Refugee Convention?
• By understanding how we conceptualise disability, we
may achieve better protection
The trope of tragedy
• The trope of tragedy is commonly how non-disabled
people view persons with disabilities
• AC (Egypt)
• Albino, persistently discriminated: a trope of monstrosity
• A narrative of the predicament of disability and
persecution
• A trope of tragedy of being disabled?
The trope of abjection
• The disabled body as psychological threat to the able-
bodied: disability is what we wish to ignore
• SHH v UK
• Severely physically disabled Afghan, claiming a violation
of Art. 3 ECHR based on inadequate social care if
returned to country of origin
• Limiting interpretation of the CRPD by the ECtHR
• A trope of abjection (and rejection)?
Conclusion
• Different conceptualisation of disability is required
• Bodies are culturally and socially mediated (Rebecca
Mallett & Katherine Runswick-Cole, Approaching
Disability, forthcoming)
• Not conflating the tragedy of persecution with the
embodied reality of being disabled, which is socially and
culturally contingent
Thank you!

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The disabled body in refugee law

  • 1. The disabled body in refugee law Dr. Andreas Dimopoulos Brunel University
  • 2. Introduction • The interpretation and application of refugee law to persons with disabilities reflects national legal and social practices towards disability • United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has had limited impact • AC (Egypt), [2011] NZIPT 800015, New Zealand: Immigration and Protection Tribunal, 25 November 2011 • SHH v UK (App No 60367/10), judgment of 29 January 2013
  • 3. Disability and IHRL • Disability rights movement • Social model of Disability • CRPD • Impact of CRPD on the Refugee Convention? • By understanding how we conceptualise disability, we may achieve better protection
  • 4. The trope of tragedy • The trope of tragedy is commonly how non-disabled people view persons with disabilities • AC (Egypt) • Albino, persistently discriminated: a trope of monstrosity • A narrative of the predicament of disability and persecution • A trope of tragedy of being disabled?
  • 5. The trope of abjection • The disabled body as psychological threat to the able- bodied: disability is what we wish to ignore • SHH v UK • Severely physically disabled Afghan, claiming a violation of Art. 3 ECHR based on inadequate social care if returned to country of origin • Limiting interpretation of the CRPD by the ECtHR • A trope of abjection (and rejection)?
  • 6. Conclusion • Different conceptualisation of disability is required • Bodies are culturally and socially mediated (Rebecca Mallett & Katherine Runswick-Cole, Approaching Disability, forthcoming) • Not conflating the tragedy of persecution with the embodied reality of being disabled, which is socially and culturally contingent