The legal protection of refugees with disabilities

(Elgar studies in human rights) Refugees living with disabilities are often forgotten or invisible during acute crises of human displacement. This groundbreaking work examines the experiences of persons with disabilities who have crossed borders in search of protection from disasters or conflict, and analyses the existing legal frameworks for their protection. The authors explore the intersection between one of the oldest international human rights treaties, the 1951 Refugee Convention, with one of the newest, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Drawing on fieldwork in six countries - Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Uganda, Jordan and Turkey - this book examines how the CRPD is, or should be, changing the way that governments and aid agencies engage with and accommodate refugees with disabilities. Its timeliness is underscored by the adoption in 2016 of the UN Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action at the World Humanitarian Summit.Contents: 1. Disability in refugee populations 2. Paradigm shift : the CRPD, international law and disability in displacement 3. Responding to disability in displacement : country reports 4. Identifying disability 5. Lived experience of disability in displacement 6. Disability, intersectionality and context 7. Access to protection : refugee rights and status determination processed 8. Disability rights, maritime interdiction and immigration detention 9. The right to survive : disability and access to basic humanitarian assistance 10. Beyond mere survival : rights to education, employment and community participation 11. The other 'durable solutions' for refugees with disabilities : resettlement and repatriation 12. Strategies for realizing rights for refugees with disabilities