Wasted lives in scapegoat Britain : overlaps and departures between migration studies and disability studies

Duda-Mikulin, E; Scullion, LC; Currie, R

Abstract

The focus of this paper is to consider how disability studies and migration studies may be brought into further conversation with one another. While their experiences overlap and intersect in many ways, the lives of disabled people and migrants have rarely been considered together and this is an omission we address through a discussion on points of intersection and departure between migration studies and disability studies.

We argue that migrants and disabled people are among the most marginalised individuals today whilst a Global North neoliberal rhetoric has pushed them further to the margins. We draw on Bauman’s theorisation of ‘wasted lives’ to bring disability studies and migration studies in dialogue with one another. Through this analysis, we highlight how bringing both disciplines together may help to inform debates focused on social justice and rights to dignity for some of world’s most marginalised communities.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 5, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Nov 25, 2019
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2020
• Deposit Date: Dec 4, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: May 25, 2021
• Journal: Disability and Society
• Print ISSN: 0968-7599
• Electronic ISSN: 1360-0508
• Publisher: Routledge
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 1373-1397
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2019.1690428
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2019.1690428
• Related Public URLs: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cdso20/current
• Additional Information: Access Information : This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Disability and Society on 25th November 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09687599.2019.1690428.