Glasgow School for Business and Society/GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY (Glasgow, Royaume-Uni)
ISBN / ISSN:
ISSN 0968-7599
Année de publication:
2017
Date de publication:
01/04/2017
Résumé:
In this article, I argue that disabled people and immigrants are subjected to similar forms of representation. I draw on examples from theology in the Christian Middle Ages, the influence of eugenics on late nineteenth and twentieth-century US immigration policy and welfare reform in contemporary neoliberal Britain. These vignettes are invoked as case studies to illustrate how ableism follows impairment on the move and to point to the ways in which the confluence of ethnocentric and ableist fantasies about strangers brings the history of disability and migration onto the same terrain of disrepute. [Résumé d'auteur]