Disability and Citizenship Studies

Focusing on the case of disability, this book examines what happens when previously marginalised individuals obtain the legal recognition of their equal citizenship rights but cannot fully enjoy these rights because of structural inequality.

Marie Sépulchre is a SYLFF (Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund) postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology at Uppsala University, Sweden, and a visiting fellow at the Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research at the University of Glasgow, UK.

1. "This is not citizenship". 2. Exploring the construction of citizenship in Sweden. 3. Understanding disability and disability activism. 4. Analysing the claims of disability activists in Sweden. 5. What problems do the disability activists highlight? 6. What solutions to the disability activists propose? 7. Conclusion: Understanding the disability activists' claims through the lens of citizenship.