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

Testimonial narratives of racialized women with disabilities bring into relief subjugated knowledge that reveal how the state constitutes and is reconstituted at the margins. Fahimeh's case example, drawn from a larger study on immigrant Muslim women in metropolis Vancouver, shows how women res...

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Published inDisability & society Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 345 - 358
Main Author Dossa, Parin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 01.06.2006
Subjects
Canada
Disability
Disabled people
Ethnic minorities
Everyday Life
Females
Handicapped
Immigrants
Life stories
Marginality
Migrants
Muslims
Nation state
Race
Social justice
Women
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Summary:Testimonial narratives of racialized women with disabilities bring into relief subjugated knowledge that reveal how the state constitutes and is reconstituted at the margins. Fahimeh's case example, drawn from a larger study on immigrant Muslim women in metropolis Vancouver, shows how women resist and rework the stigmatized labels of disability and race from their social locations at the margins. Our analysis of particular events and critical episodes show how Fahimeh, speaking in a collective voice, implicates the state to bring home the message that racialized persons with disabilities are human. Their humanness (desire for a just world) is affirmed through blurring of boundaries of the private and the public, and everyday life and state institutions. Fahimeh's testimonial shows that margins are not merely territorial; they are sites of practice that point to the makings of a just world.
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ISSN:0968-7599
1360-0508
DOI:10.1080/09687590600680111