Disability, a Determining Poverty Condition

Abstract

This work seeks to identify the relashionships between disability and poverty and also empasizes the importance of disability role globally and the interdependence between disability and poverty. In the contemporary period, the subject of socio-professional insertion, the fight against discrimination as well as the improvement of living conditions for people with disabilities have been constantly addressed by international bodies for the protection of human rights, by public authorities at the national level as well as by researchers in the field of social security so as to reduce the risk of impoverishment, respectively of social exclusion for the people with disabilities around the world. Through the lens of socio-cognitive mechanisms, people are influenced by the perception of an ideal of beauty when interacting with disabled people, who are frequently discriminated against and rejected from a social point of view. When the social rejection of disabled people is the common goal of several individuals, they group into masses of people, thus gaining a great power to reject the disability. People with disabilities face physical, social, economic or environmental barriers to their participation in social life, which can lead to poverty and marginalization and they are more exposed to social exclusion and risk of poverty compared to people with mild disabilities who are not completely isolated from society.