Disability-responsive Migration
This page provides a curated collection of external research, reports, and publications related to disability and migration. These resources have informed and inspired our work, and are shared here to support advocates, researchers, policymakers, and OPDs working towards more inclusive and just systems.
If you have any recommendations to add to this page, please email us at: disabilitymigrationnetwork@gmail.com
REPORTS
Cote A, Banks L M, 2025. Global Disability Inclusion Report Accelerating Disability Inclusion in a Changing and Diverse World
Available at: https://www.globaldisabilitysummit.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GIP03351-UNICEF-GDIR-Full-report_Proof-7.pdf
Govere E, Vearey J, Walker R, 2021. “They are too quiet about migration”: A scoping exercise exploring migration.
Available at: https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/They-are-Too-Quiet-about-Migration.pdf
FRA, 2016. Thematic focus: Migrants with disabilities
Available at: https://fra.europa.eu/en/content/thematic-focus-migrants-disabilities
ILO, 2026. Technical report on fair recruitment of migrant workers with disabilities.
Available at: https://www.ilo.org/publications/technical-report-fair-recruitment-migrant-workers-disabilities
Saptaningrum et al, 2021. The Blocked, The Obstructed: Intersectionality Study on the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers and Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Available at: https://aseanactpartnershiphub.com/resource/the-blocked-the-obstructed/
Ziersch et al, 2024. Growing up well in a new country: Supporting mental health and wellbeing for young people with disability from refugee backgrounds.
Available at: https://migranthealth.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/9/6/149628254/growing_up_well_full_report_2024.pdf
RESEARCH (Open Access)
Ader, 2024. Disability Rights and Swiss Citizenship: The Dimensions of Inclusive and Exclusive Integration Criteria.
Available at: https://www.sozialpolitik.ch/article/view/4812/6002
Duggan N, Holmström I, 2024. ‘Deaf Migrants in Sweden: Exploring Linguistic and Bureaucratic Challenges Through the Lens of Crip Theory and Crip Linguistics’.
Dzordzormenyoh, Boateng, 2024. Leaving Home and Living Abroad: A Comparative Analysis of the Factors Influencing the Migration Decisions of Africans to Move Abroad.
Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.13486
UNITED NATIONS SUBMISSIONS
Ball R, 2009. Disability, migration and human rights: Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration’s inquiry into immigration treatment of disability.
Available at: https://www.hrlc.org.au/app/uploads/2025/04/Disability-Rights-Discrimination-and-Migration-Law-mc26.pdf
COAMEX & PADF, 2019. Migration & Disability. A View from Intersectionality.
Available at: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/download.aspx?symbolno=int%2fcrpd%2fico%2fmex%2f36889&lang=en
DUROO, 2025. 115th Session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Joint NGO Submission on the Rights of Migrants with Disabilities in the Republic of Korea.
Available at: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT%2FCERD%2FNGO%2FKOR%2F62818&Lang=en
IDA, 2022. Submission on the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CMWF): Draft outline of General Comment No. 6.
Available at: https://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/sites/default/files/ida_submission_for_dgd_final_version.pdf
POLICY BRIEF
Dowling, S, 2016. Disability and unsafe migration: Data and policy, understanding the evidence (Data Briefing Series, Issue No. 7).
Available at: https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/gmdac_data_briefing_series_issue_7.pdf
Echave P, Gonzalez D, 2022. ‘Being an Immigrant with Disabilities’.
Available on: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/2022-04/Being%20an%20Immigrant%20with%20Disabilities.pdf
ILO, 2023. Disability rights and domestic work in ASEAN.
Available at: https://www.ilo.org/resource/brief/disability-rights-and-domestic-work-asean
NEWS ARTICLES
Disability Debrief, n.d. Migration (repository)
Available at: https://www.disabilitydebrief.org/library/topic-migration/
Human Rights Watch, 2024. “It Felt Like Everything in Life Stopped” Legal Capacity Rights Violations Against People with Disabilities in Canada’s Immigration Detention System.
Available at: https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/12/03/it-felt-like-everything-in-life-stopped/legal-capacity-rights-violations-against
OHCHR, 2024. Migrants with disabilities facing dual neglect: UN committees.
Available at: https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2024/12/migrants-disabilities-facing-dual-neglect-un-committees
Marcolongo G P, 2025. Migrants with a disability: 5 insights to understand an ‘invisible’ problem.
Available at: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/migrants-with-disability-invisible-population/
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