Hi
There was a hint of this in some work we did recently with local
organisations working with older people. We were interested in the
politicisation of these groups towards disability issues and noted in the
report a correlation between politicisation on racism/ethnicity issues and
politicisation on disability issues (although the number of organisations
involved was too small to be conclusive).
The full report is available on the project web site at:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/projects/olderbridges.htm
However, the following extract summarises our analysis on this issue...
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...We had sought to include representation from groups representing minority
ethnic communities and our initial sample reflected this, with around 16
organisations (29.1%) claiming to have some involvement in campaigning on
race or ethnicity issues. This sub group was particularly interesting, as
campaigning on these issues seemed to be highly indicative of involvement in
other campaigns. For example, all of these 16 groups said they were involved
in older people's campaign issues and 14 of them (87.5%) were involved in
disability campaigns (this was more than double the rate of involvement for
all organisations). The rates for involvement in gender issue campaigns were
also around double the average amongst this subgroup.
Taking this analysis further, we examined the data on groups involved in
campaigning on gender issues. The numbers here were smaller (only 9
organisations). However, we again found extremely high rates of
participation in campaigning on disability and other issues (all but one
group were involved). Working backwards, this time ignoring those
organisations involved in campaigning on race and gender issues, we found
only 15.8% (6 out of the remaining 32 organisations) claimed any involvement
in disability campaign issues. The sample size is too small to draw any
statistical conclusions but these findings merit some careful attention.
Does politicisation in the area of race/ethnicity and/or gender issues tend
to predict a wider politicisation within older people's organisations on
issues such as disability? Clearly, our findings would suggest that this is
the case. No other factor was as predictive of disability campaign
involvement (including the targeting of, or provision of services to,
disabled people as clients)
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Best Wishes
Mark Priestley
Centre for Disability Studies
University of Leeds
LEEDS
LS2 9JT
UK
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http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies
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Subject: Ethnicity/ disability
Could anyone direct me towards any research which finds a correlation
between a disabled individual who is black or from an ethnic minority
group and a higher level of motivation to challenge discriminatory
barriers (in other words has a more politicised approach to impairment
as a result of occupying these two disadvantaged groups??
Thankyou
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