Although some 80% of persons with disabilities (PWDs) live in developing countries of the global south, Critical Disability Studies scholarship has been primarily a Northern discipline. The talk brings into central focus the socioeconomic situation of PWDs in the English-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Using available quantitative and qualitative data, the disability and inequality nexus evident in the marginalised socio-cultural disability identity, as well as poorer educational, and labour market outcomes of PWDs compared with persons without disabilities, are presented. The intersectionality of disability with gender, age, urban/rural location, type and severity of disability is underscored. The Transnationalism of disability as human rights development therefore demands the evidence-based policy-making and programming. The Southern-derived Framework of Key Determinants for Political and Socioeconomic Inclusion of PWDs is thus recommended, in context of CARICOM’s commitments to disability policies and/or legislation, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the global agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals. The talk will therefore contribute to crafting a more inclusive scholarship agenda for Critical Disability Studies.

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