 Racialized bodies, disabling worlds "they [service providers] always saw me as a client, not as a worker"Parin Dossa Social Science & Medicine, 2005, vol. 60, issue 11, 2527-2536 Abstract: This paper makes a case for a contextualized reading of intersecting constructs of disability, gender and race as they unfold in the everyday lives of immigrant women with disabilities. Taking the vantage point of Mehrun, a Canadian Muslim woman with polio, we show that the disability, gender and race constructs converge in some contexts and remain separate in others. This is an important consideration as it forestalls a situation where immigrant women's activist work is seen to be confined to the discrete sphere of their own communities. Mehrun's story of migration and settlement as well as her "work" on community integration of persons with disabilities (regardless of race or gender) is a plea for the civil rights of disabled people. At the same time, Mehrun's embodied reality as a racialized woman with disabilities suggests the possibility of making her marginality the epicenter of change. Keywords: Inequalities; of; power; Immigrant/Muslim; women; Disability; Race; Marginality; Canada (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:60:y:2005:i:11:p:2527-2536 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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