Disability and Social Justice

This insightful book illustrates the barriers to societal participation that disabled people experience. Leading experts highlight that despite countries’ commitment to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), disabled people still face injustices within key social institutions and arenas.Chapters present empirical insights into the dynamics of social justice, addressing conditions that both hinder and enable a life of dignity for disabled people. Contributing authors focus on four key societal areas: care and support for family life and for independent living, education, employment, and public life and human diversity. Drawing on the obligations of the CRPD and insights from social justice theories, the book considers potential future challenges, advocating for a more just society within welfare states.Disability and Social Justice is an invaluable resource for scholars and students specialising in social policy, cultural sociology, disability studies, and social work. It will also greatly benefit policymakers, practitioners, and social workers aiming to improve the day to day lives of disabled people.