Mobilities Flashcards
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Mobilities
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• Layers of exclusion faced by some minorities when attempting to move to other countries
- Fundamental historical assumptions about foreigners, which discriminate against others and stigmatize ‘strangers’ remain embedded within air travel.
- Immigration technologies remain an area where the nation-state
- Early immigration policy explicitly expressed a distinction between undesirable Canadian citizens
- Historical laws allowed the cabinet to sift through applications to regulate the volume, ethnic origin or occupational composition of potential immigrants
- Currently there are a variety of strategies that try to identify, treat, manage or administer those individuals who are seen as high risk, to protect the mass population
- This shows how a person’s identity can hinder their ability to move and are therefore excluded
- However people who are economically self-sufficient and able-bodied are oftne
- Showing how historically a persons ability to be perfectly mobile and move around freely was highly dpendent on a person’s identity
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Disabled
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• Many disabled people are faced by poor physical designs of their houses that do not suit their needs. (Blunt,A.2005)
- Does not suit their needs for access into and ease of movement about and use of domestic spaces. (Blunt,A.2005)
- Most house designs are built for the ‘abled’ body meaning these spaces are do not facilitate people (Blunt,A.2005)
- For example the English house conditions survey shows that only 7000 dwellings in England host the minimum requirements for wheelchair accessibility in dwellings (Imrie,R.2004)
- Particularly a problem for those who cannot afford to make adaptions to aid movement for people with disabilities (Imrie,R.2004)
- This shows how the architectural design of a home can have such a huge impact on the life of somebody who suffers from a disability. Poor architectural design of the majority of dwellings across the United Kingdom results in a number of disabled people suffering from exclusion in their own home as they are incapable of moving round their homes with ease
- This would not be an issue for someone who is physically able to move around which shows that how we experience our domestic space is contingent based on our identity
