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Item Open Access Ableism, Intersectionality, Power and Knowledge: The Complexities of Navigating Accommodations in Postsecondary Institutions(2020-10-27) Brown, Zahra J.; Gorman, Rachel; Isrealite, NeitaAlthough post-secondary educational institutions have been mandated by law to accommodate, the issue of students with disabilities receiving accommodation remains problematic. One factor that is relevant, but often overlooked, is how power functions in the process of seeking and receiving accommodation. My interest is to critically examine selected parts of my lived experiences with accommodation at three post-secondary institutions to shed light upon how power, knowledge and intersectionality function for students seeking and receiving accommodation. I argue that a successful navigation of accommodation at postsecondary institutions does not depend only on the institution’s duty to accommodate but also on these factors. My literature review employs constructs proposed by several scholars to explain the complexities of accommodation. These include: 1) Kimberlé Crenshaw’s Black Feminist conceptualization of intersectionality and the need for a multiple axis framework to understand the dilemma that Black women present, 2) Patricia Hill Collins’ Black Feminist Thought and its emphasis on categories of analyses that address unequal power relationships between parties, 3) Richard Clark Eckert and Amy June Rowley’s notion of audism as embodying supremacy, 4) Michel Foucault’s articulation of discourse analyses of knowledge and power, and 5) Teri Hibbs and Dianne Pothier’s analysis of how power functions in the accommodation process. I apply these notions to an auto-ethnographic case study of my own experiences in postsecondary institutions as black, woman and student with disabilities. The results of my analysis as well as my recommendations will advance scholarship in the area of accommodation and disabilities.Item Open Access The Healthy Immigrant Effect in Canada: Understandings of Debility: A Literature Review(2024-08-13) Abdel Kader, Waad ; Gorman, Rachel Da Silveira; El Morr, ChristoImmigrants generally start with better-than-average health at the time of their immigrant application and arrival to Canada. This is done through a careful and precise process that rules out disability. Many later faced disabling social determinants of health, such as poor housing, difficulty navigating the education system, precarious working environments, and lack of social support networks. Immigrants are among the most vulnerable members of society, facing xenophobia, judgment, discrimination, and otherness (Dada, 2022). Although it is masked with welcoming faces and implicit suggestions that they are “lucky” to be given a chance to immigrate to Canada and start a new life for themselves. The truth is that once they have immigrated, the journey is incomplete; it is only the start of a new, complex and exhausting journey (Dada, 2022). Most immigrants coming to Canada are here to start families or smaller families looking for new opportunities. Immigrant parents often face challenges adjusting to a new system, supporting their children through school systems that are foreign to them, working to make ends meet and adjusting to a new environment where they are separated and distanced from their families, the majority moving from collectivistic cultures into a more individualistic atmosphere that triggers a culture shock. How are current health policies enough to support the journey post-immigration? What support is available to immigrants, and how can they be better met? From a health policy point of view, many chronic health conditions can be avoided or prevented through health policy implementations and access to healthcare. Immigrants often face language barriers when moving to Canada, and that can impact navigating healthcare settings and school systems. Immigrants are often not aware of mental health and health resources that can be available to them, often leading them to suffer on their own.Item Open Access What if There was Never Once Upon a Time But an “Unhinged Representation of the Disabled Womanhood Journey?(2024-08-12) Deoni, Natasha; Reaume, Geoffrey; Vorstermans, JessicaThe Walt Disney Company released its first feature animated film in 1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; little to their surprise, this film initiated the princess phenomenon (Muir, 2023, p.2). The Disney Princess films portray two representations of females: the naive, young, beautiful princess and the older, cruel, feared by all, independent villain. Using Critical Disability Studies, Feminist and Feminist Disability Studies paradigms will analyze how the ideology of cure is embedded in the Princess and Villain’s journey to overcome the curses cast upon them and change the trajectory of their current life. The implications of the representations for the Princess and Villain journey to disabled womanhood and if there has been a progression in the depiction of disability and femineity in the Disney Princess animated films. A mixed method was used to uncover the findings for the qualitative study: reflective thematic analysis and autoethnography.