Disabling Migration Controls: Shared Learning, Solidarity, and Collective Resistance [Paperback]

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 peoples movement.? 6.Extending the social model to build collective resistance.? x.Concluding Comments  Building a movement for justice.

Drawing on many years of research and activism, this book argues that insights from the disabled peoples 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.

This is a must-read book for anyone with any interest in social justice. It is also a call to arms for activists in both the disability and immigration sectors to learn from each other, to unite, and to build solidarity in the fight for a better future for us all.

Ellen Clifford, Disabled activist, member of the national Steering Group of Disabled People Against Cuts and author of The War on Disabled People published by Zed Books which won the 2021 Bread and Roses award.?

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Weve needed this book for a long time! Immigration activists have much to learn from the disabled peoples movement, and particularly from disabled asylum seekers. Rebecca Yeo is a committed, inspiring and comprehensive guide to this important emerging field.

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Professor Bridget Anderson, Director Migration Mobilities Bristol, University of Bristol

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In this thoroughly well-argued book, Rebecca Yeo shows both how asylum systems produce injustice for disabled peopllC%