Disabling Migration Controls

Drawing on many years of research and activism, this book argues that insights from the disabled people's movement, particularly the original Social Model of Disability, can be usefully extended to focus resistance on the disabling restrictions imposed on people subject to asylum and immigration controls.

Rebecca Yeo is an activist and academic specialising in issues of disability and migrant justice. She worked on issues of disability and international poverty for many years before turning to focus more on the UK context. Her doctoral and postdoctoral work included bringing people in the asylum system and the disabled people's movement into conversation with each other. She explores the relevance of insights and achievements of the disabled people's movement for wider social justice movements.

0.Introduction. 1.Struggles for survival and resistance. 2.Exceptions to universal rights and the promotion of individual responsibility. 3.Austerity, the hostile environment and entrenchment of individualism. 4.Implementation or resistance to the increasingly hostile environment. 5.Omission or distortion of insights from the disabled people's movement. 6.Extending the social model to build collective resistance. x.Concluding Comments - Building a movement for justice.