To accomplish this overall goal, the team will conduct a holistic monitoring of the current status of disability law and policy, media representations and daily life experiences of persons with disabilities in Portugal, applying the methodology developed in the context of the international project DRPI.

Taken per se, each of these areas (law and policy, societal representations and individual experiences) is relevant, but insufficient, to understand how persons with disabilities fare in society. Brought together they offer a holistic picture that enables us to examine the processes and interactions that produce disability discrimination. This knowledge will provide the basis on which the team will design innovative social indicators to measure progress towards the realization of human rights for persons with disabilities in future studies.

Founded upon an understanding of disability as emerging in and through relationships of bodies with their legal, social and physical environments, this study aims to make a significant contribution to processes related to the monitoring of the CRPD.

Start date and end date of the Project
01/06/2013 to 31/05/2014
 

Research Team
Paula Campos Pinto (Principal Investigator)  

External Consultant
Marcia Rioux (York University, Toronto, Canada)
 
Funding
Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)