Disability, marginality and the nation-state - negotiating social markers of difference : Fahimeh's story

By: Dossa, Parin.
Series: Disability & Society 21 (4) 2006: 345-358.Publisher: 2006Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume Subject(s): DISCRIMINATION | ETHNIC MINORITIES | SOCIAL CONTEXTSummary: Focuses on the narrative of an Iranian woman, Fahimeh, a Canadian immigrant, to show how women resist and rework the stigmatized labels of disability and race from their social locations at the margins. Using analysis of particular events and critical episodes to show how Fahimeh, speaking in a collective voice, implicates the state to bring home the message that radicalized persons with disabilities are human.
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Focuses on the narrative of an Iranian woman, Fahimeh, a Canadian immigrant, to show how women resist and rework the stigmatized labels of disability and race from their social locations at the margins. Using analysis of particular events and critical episodes to show how Fahimeh, speaking in a collective voice, implicates the state to bring home the message that radicalized persons with disabilities are human.

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