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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
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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