Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities

Mary Crock, Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney, Laura Smith-Khan, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Ron McCallum, Emeritus Professor, Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney, Australia and Ben Saul, Challis Chair of International Law, University of Sydney, Australia; Associate Fellow, Chatham House,Associate Fellow, International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague and a Consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Terrorism Prevention Branch), UK

‘The authors succeed in providing a thoroughly researched, penetrating legal analysis of the often forgotten or overlooked lives of RWDs. The nuanced understanding provided by this work will assist policy-makers and humanitarian agencies in creating enabling environments for and conceptualizing solutions to overcome challenges and barriers faced by RWDs. It will also be a seminal authority on this complex yet dynamic issue for scholars of disability rights and refugee studies.’

• Contents: Part I Setting the Scene 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 Part II Towards a rights regime for refugees with disabilities 7. Access to protection: Refugee rights and status determination processes 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 realising rights for refugees with disabilities Index