South Asian disabled young people and their families
- Author/Editor(s):
- Yasmin Hussain, Karl Atkin, Waqar Ahmad
- Format:
- Paperback , 40 pages , 297 x 210 mm
- ISBN
- 9781861343260
- Published:
- 10 Jul 2002
- Series:
- Social Care: Race and Ethnicity
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About This Book
Ensuring service delivery responds to the needs of individuals has come to dominate debates about community care. However, discussions rarely reflect the experiences of minority ethnic people and there is little evidence about how minority ethnic families make sense of disability and caring.Focusing on young, disabled Asian people and their families, this report:presents evidence of how young, disabled Asian people experience disability;explores the meaning and experience of disability within the context of family relationships;questions the relevance of the social model of disability to the experience of young disabled Asian people;addresses weaknesses in current policy and practice.
• South Asian disabled young people and their families will be invaluable to health and social care workers, service managers and policy makers as well as researchers.Author Biography
Yasmin Hussain is a Research Fellow in the Department of Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Leeds. She has a particular interest in ethnicity and identity. Dr Karl Atkin is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research in Primary Care and has published widely on ethnicity and social policy. Waqar Ahmad was Professor of Primary Care Research and Director of the Centre for Research in Primary Care during this project.Contents
Introduction
Young people's views on identity: religion, culture and ethnicity
Views on marriage and family
Disabling barriers and racism at work and at home
Using the services
Implications for policy practice and research.
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