Workbook
Disabled in an Immigrant Family
Navigating Disability in a Culture That May Not Have Language for It
This workbook builds a navigation where the disability and the cultural context are named together.
For the disabled person in an immigrant family navigating a cultural context where disability may be experienced as family shame, where the medical model of disability is the only model available, where social support systems do not account for the family's cultural context, and where the person's own understanding of their disability is shaped by two conflicting guides.
The Name It First Experience
Your disability lives inside two guides — the medical model your doctors use and the cultural guide your family carried across a border — and neither was built with the other in mind. Disabled in an Immigrant Family maps the specific terrain of navigating disability inside an immigrant family context — where disability may carry family shame, where social support systems do not account for your cultural context, and where your culture may have no established word for what you have — and builds the documented navigation that names what both offer and what both ask of you. This workbook is for the disabled person in an immigrant family navigating two conflicting systems who needs a way to name their experience that neither system has provided. Navigating Disability in a Culture That May Not Have Language for It builds that document.
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Sample questions
- What does disability mean in your family's cultural context — and how has that shaped the support you have received?
- Where has the gap between your family's understanding and your actual needs been most difficult?
- What do you need from your family around your disability that you have not yet asked for or explained?
Research basis
Social model of disability / Berry acculturation / disability studies / cross-cultural disability research / family systems
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