Disability and Inequality: Socioeconomic Imperatives and Public Policy in Jamaica - Tapa blanda

"Disability and Inequality is a wonderful effort to improve the repository of knowledge on persons with disabilities, a vulnerable community in Jamaica and the broader Caribbean. The research contained in the book can only redound to the improvement of the development agenda of persons with disabilities in the region, and the current mobilization within the region to improve the policy and legislative environment for persons with disabilities makes Gayle-Geddes' book a timely one. I strongly and unequivocally endorse this book and commend it to readers." - Floyd Morris, President of the Jamaican Senate, and Coordinator/Head of the University of the West Indies Centre for Disability Studies, Jamaica

"Disability and Inequality is a welcome addition to literature about sustainable development and people with disabilities in the Caribbean region. Gayle-Geddes illustrates sociocultural, educational and employment evidences from Jamaica as the basis of inequality between the populations with and without disabilities. She argues that sustainable development is transnational with long-term multidisciplinary implications for the Caribbean." -Katherine D. Seelman, Associate Dean and Professor of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh, USA

"Disability and Inequality provides a way forward for social inclusion and mainstreaming persons with disabilities in the very complex policy environment This is a much needed guide for the evolving programs in the Caribbean and for advocates dedicated to improving conditions for persons with disabilities." -Innette Cambridge, Coordinator of the Social Policy Program and Disability Studies Unit, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

Disability and Inequality:Socioeconomic Imperatives and Public Policy in Jamaica explores the lived experiences of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Jamaica, examining measurable socioeconomic deficits that establish PWDs are more likely to experience inferior education, training, and labor market outcomes compared to persons without disabilities. The author provides an evidence-based, theoretically grounded, and implementable public policy framework, called Framework of Key Determinants for Political and Socioeconomic Inclusion of PWDs, which advances anti-discrimination legislation and a twin-track policy schema with interconnected enablers of human rights. Using this framework, Jamaica, the Caribbean, and other Southern countries looking for methods and strategies to fulfill commitments set out by the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will find approaches to sustain existing progress, and address structural systemic deficits which continue to deny PWDs long-term sustainable development.