Disabled Refugees Welcome

Disabled Refugees and Liberty

Webinar – 5 May 2020 ⋅ 14:00 – 16:00 CET European Independent Living Day Organized by Disabled Refugees Welcome/Independent Living Institute and the European Network on Independent Living Register here  Disabled Refugees Welcome (DRW), a project of Independent Living Institute (ILI) is holding a webinar in cooperation with ENIL – the…
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First Pod – DRW and Corona – 31 March 2020 – English to Amharic

Migrants in Sweden need information on Corona: DRW working with disabled migrants in Sweden sees that information on Corona is not spreading as needed. This first pod is an attempt to spread more information on Corona to people speaking Amharic. Jamie Bolling the project leader of DRW first speaks in…
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(Svenska) Vägar till kunskap om fonder och stiftelser

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DRW vill nå ut med information om Coronaviruset och om sjukdomen Covid-19

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Celebrate Independent Living Day May 5th with DRW – Webinar – Disabled Refugees and Liberty

Disabled Refugees Welcome project is celebrating the European Day of Independent Living and invites you to their webinar on May 5th. The two hour long webinar will be broadcasted through the ZOOM program and will have representation from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Disabled People International (DPI),…
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(Svenska) Webinar “Vägen mot ömsesidig integration” – i samarbete med NKA- Nationellt kompetenscentrum för anhörigstöd

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(Svenska) DRW Månadsmingel

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(Svenska) Hjärnkolls projekt “Den egna berättelsen om psykisk ohälsa och migration” – spridningsseminarium

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(Svenska) DRWs skypemöte med målgruppen om COVID-19

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(Svenska) Disabled Refugees Welcome var på Infoteket i Uppsala

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(Svenska) DRW kvinnogrupp träffas igen

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DRW and Coronavirus – 23 March 2020

A report on the present situation by Jamie Bolling Coronavirus disease – COVID-19 is a world pandemic and crisis for all countries. This both as the healthcare systems are overloaded and people are dying. We are also in a world economic crisis to which we do not see the end…
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(Svenska) Inbjudan till Infoteket Uppsala

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(Svenska) Remissyttrande över SOU 2019:23 Styrkraft i funktionshinderspolitiken

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(Svenska) Rundabordssamtal med DRW och RG –Integration

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(Svenska) DRW medverkade i Kvotprojektets slutkonferens

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(Svenska) Refugees Health Integration projektet

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(Svenska) Förening för Rehabilitering och Utveckling – FRU

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(Svenska) Kunskapsseminarium på Huddinge kommun

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(Svenska) Mediebevakning om projektet Disabled Refugees Welcome

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(Svenska) DRW med European Network on Independent Living (ENIL)

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(Svenska) ENIL Freedom Drive 2019 – en marsch för verklig Independent Living

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(Svenska) DRW och projektet RG Integration gemensamma drop-in på Rehab Station

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(Svenska) Dilek ville berätta

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(Svenska) DRW-projektet nu i sitt tredje år

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(Svenska) Två år med DRW-projektet

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(Svenska) ”Nya gymnasielagen”- om rättslig osäkerhet för unga migranter med normbrytande funktionalitet

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(Svenska) DRW:s undersökning i samarbete med Länsstyrelsen Stockholm -om boendesituationen för migranter med normbrytande funktionalitet

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(Svenska) DRW:s prova på Boccia!

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(Svenska) Stöd av volontärer behövs inom DRW

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(Svenska) Photovoice- en metod för ökad delaktighet av migranter med normbrytande funktionalitet

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(Svenska) DRW på Stockholms Syncentral

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(Svenska) DRW träffar Migrationsverket

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(Svenska) DRW på Almedalen- med temat Hälsa på lika villkor

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DRW’s information manual- The road to reciprocal integration

A manual for public institutions and civil society organisations that meet migrants with *non-normative abilities and work with reception, establishment, integration and social support. The DRW's information manual goes through theoretical critical frameworks, the legal systems for migration and social rights, and an analysis of how the system works for…
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(Svenska) DRW:s möte med Infoteket om funktionshinder i Uppsala Region

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Disabled Refugees Welcome at Järvaveckan 2019

Disabled Refugees Welcome project participated in the Järvaveckan for the first time from the 12th of June until the 16th of June. Järvaveckan is about reducing the distance between people and elected representatives. The living hub of Järvaveckan is a great meeting place for community engagement. Companies, associations, authorities, organizations,…
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Sisay Game Beyene conveys his experience at Järvaveckan

First of all, I would like to say it is my pleasure to present Disabled Refugees Welcome for the distinguished guests to the DRW tent. I would like to extend my special thanks to Disabled Refugees Welcome (DRW) project’s leader Jamie Bolling for giving me the opportunity to attend Järvaveckan;…
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(Svenska) DRW deltog i Funktionsrätt Stockholms Län seminarium under Järvaveckan – Satsa på vår hälsa!

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(Svenska) DRW kvinnogruppen har träffats

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Meet DRW interns

Brooke Antol from the USA My name is Brooke Antol, and I am about to begin my last academic year at North Carolina State University, where I am studying Political Science with the goal of attending law school after graduation. I chose to come to Sweden for the summer because…
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(Svenska) SFI i Rinkeby för Människor med synskada

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(Svenska) Referensgruppsmöte – fullt med engagemang!

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(Svenska) DRW sprider sina observationer

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Meet DRW’s intern Maggie

My name is Margaret Muru and I am in my last term as a student in Campus Nyköping where I am studying to become an integration pedagog. The last 5 weeks I had my LIA intern period where i was lucky to have a chance to work and practice with…
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Network meeting in Botkyrka – with project “Flexibel Samhällsinformation”

Julius Ntobuah from DRW met with representatives from Huddinge and Salem municipalities and with the organisation Hela Människan in Botkyrka, the Swedish church in Huddinge as well as with other organisations. Julius Ntobuah presented the DRW project with some of its results and cases regarding the situation of disabled migrants…
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(Svenska) Rinkeby Hälsomässan

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(Svenska) Se Möjligheter för integration

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(Svenska) LaSSe – en gräsrotsorganisation för funkisar i Göteborg

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(Svenska) Nya insikter genom Forum Lösningar

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(Svenska) Lighthouse: snabbspår till integration – finns det?

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(Svenska) DRW analyserar Delmirapport om asylsökandes erfarenheter

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(Svenska) Disabled Refugees Welcome står bakom Forums remissvar över förslaget om att förlänga den tillfälliga lagen

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(Svenska) Nätverksträff med fokus på migration och etablering

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(Svenska) DRW besökte SRFs Branschföreningsmöte i Härnösand

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(Svenska) Kammarrätten dömer negativt i mål om rätt till bostad

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(Svenska) Säg hej till Dilek, DRWs nya praktikant.

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(Svenska) Stort intresse visat på DRWs volontär infomöte

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DRW’s observations on the situation of disabled asylum seekers in Sweden

Sweden has laws and regulations that are meant to ensure that asylum seekers are guaranteed a legally certain asylum procedure. Everyone is to have their case thoroughly tried by competent authorities. With this perspective Sweden could be seen as a good example compared to other EU countries. However, experiences shared…
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Disabled Refugees Welcome mid-project report

Disabled Refugees Welcome (DRW) is a three year project (September 2017 – August 2020), run by the Independent Living Institute and financed by the Swedish Inheritance Fund, Arvsfonden. Arvsfonden is a national fund that administers money for projects targeting children, young people and disabled people. The purpose of the DRW…
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(Svenska) Program för tillgänglighet och delaktighet för personer med funktionsnedsättning 2018-2023

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(Svenska) Volontärverksamhet

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(Svenska) DRWs Samarbete med HRF

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(Svenska) Forum lösningar

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(Svenska) Migranter med normbrytande funktionalitet – erfarenheter om asyl, vården och etablering.

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Politiken bör arbeta utifrån en bredare och intersektionell konsekvensanalys

Två mycket centrala utredningar på funktionshinderpolitikens område publiceras i januari 2019 - LSS-utredningen den 10 januari och styrutredningen för funktionshinderpolitiken den 31 januari.  Ett genomgående funktionshinderperspektiv saknas i statliga utredningar. DRW har pratat med Martin Olauzon om Mottagandeutredningen och styrutredningen för funktionshinderpolitiken som han varit särskild utredare för. Han understryker…
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(Svenska) Hur ser samarbetet mellan Migrationsverket och UNHCR ut?

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(Svenska) Samarbete med Caritas

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UNDP’s migration unit visited and interviewed DRW’s team

The18th of October 2018 representants of the UNDP Migration Unit’s Saran Kaba Jones,  Lena Mucha, Johan Tholson and Jon Rudberg visited DRW’s offices and met with the DRW team and interviewed Julius Ntobuah on his experiences as a refugee to Sweden with a disability. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)…
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(Svenska) DRW team på Socialstyrelsens hearing om nyanlända barn.

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(Svenska) Funktionshindersuppdrag – Länsstyrelsen Stockholm besökte DRW

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(Svenska) Funktionshinderperspektiv på rätten till familjeåterförening och familjeliv i Sverige för nyanlända

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(Svenska) Funktionshinderperspektivet behöver lyftas- DRW:s bedömning av mottagandeutredningen

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(Svenska) Den svenska kvotflykting-mottagningen

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(Svenska) DRW:s samverkansarbete med Kvot-projektet: ett år till

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(Svenska) DRWs miniseminarium på MR-dagarna: fullsatt!

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(Svenska) Internationella dagen för personer med funktionshinder-DRW uppmärksammar

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(Svenska) STIL/ILI remissvar SOU 2018:22

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(Svenska) DRWs Volontärverksamhet

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(Svenska) Ingen kan göra allt men alla kan göra något!

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(Svenska) Arvsfondens intervju med DRWs fältarbetare Julius Ntobuah

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(Svenska) IMs inkludering av nyanlända i föreningslivet

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(Svenska) Disabled Refugees Welcome projektet på MR Dagarna

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(Svenska) Temadagen om- Programmet för tillgänglighet och delaktighet för personer med funktionsnedsättning 2018 – 2023

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For whom started DRW?

Are you newcomer and have a norm breaking functional variation? You can tell us about your situation, your needs and DRW's team will provide you with tips about available resources and information about your rights. Call Us: +46 707828379 E-mail: info@independentliving.org
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DRW:s nya fältarbetare med juridisk kompetens.

DRW välkomnar Ola Linder som är jurist med fokus på mänskliga rättigheter och funkis frågor.Inom ramen för arbetet som DRW har genomfört under första året har det identifierats ett återkommande behov av juridisk expertrådgivning bland både målgruppen, DRW:s team och myndighetspersonal. I projektet  Med Lagen som Verktyg finns det mycket…
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(Svenska) DRW är medlem i referensgruppen för projektet -Hälsofrämjande etablering.

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Human rights of people with disabilities should be incorporated into swedish law!

was the message from Denise Crosso, F!s candidate för fullmäktige in Gothenburg when she visited DRW before the Swedish elections and left us with a huge smile. The UN Convention on the Rights for People with Disabilities was ratified a long time ago, Sweden has already tried to follow the…
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DRW och projektet Den egna berättelsen – om psykisk ohälsa och migration.

Hjärnkoll startades 2009 av Myndigheten för delaktighet och har sedan dess utbildat ca. 300 ambassadörer. 2015 blev Hjärnkoll “Riksförbundet Hjärnkoll” i ett samarbete mellan organisationerna i Nationell samverkan för psykisk hälsa, där arbete sker för att öka öppenheten kring psykisk ohälsa, förändra negativa attityder och minska diskrimineringen av personer med…
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DRW teamet bjöd in nyckelaktörer till ett samtal om lösningar

DRW:s referensgruppsmöte med nyckelaktörer för etableringen verkar lovande med deltagare som visade stort engagemang. Onsdagen den 19 september 2018 träffade projektet Disabled Refugees Welcome olika representanter för myndigheter och organisationer som arbetar med etablering och funktionspolitiska frågor. DRW teamet träffade nyckelaktörer såsom Pedro Landfors från Myndigheten för delaktighet (MFD), Sara…
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Written summary

This is the views of the political parties of the Parliament and the Feminist Initiative, F! on the living conditions for newcomers with non-normative abilities. All eight of the political parties of the Parliament and F! have responded to the survey while the Social Democrats had State Secretary Anders Kessling…
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How the political parties of the Swedish Parliament and F! view living conditions of migrants with non-normative abilities

Following is a compilation of a survey that, DRW (Disabled Refugees Welcome) sent to all political parties of the Parliament as well as Feminist Initiative, F! ahead of a panel dialogue during the Almedalen Week. Anders Kessling, State Secretary to the Minister for Employment and Integration and Johanna Jönsson, Member…
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Disabled Refugees Welcome’s list of demands

Increased participation for newcomers with nn-normative abilities on issues connected to health, employment, education, family, migration policy/politics of establishment, accommodation and transport. Commitment from the Swedish Migration Agency and the municipalities to create a common framework following the UNHCR’s Resettlement Assessment Tool: Refugees with Disabilities. Access to adapted Swedish language…
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DRW’s analysis of DRWs survey to the political parties of the Parliament and Feminist Initiative

Migrants with refugee status who today would get guarantee-pension will be forced to live on social welfare benefit instead, if the proposals from the Centre Party, the Liberals and the New Moderates are implemented. DRW can today, based on the answers provided in the survey, conclude that half of the…
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High hopes for the proposals from the Inquiry on the reception and housing of applicants for asylum and newly arrived migrants

Watch the live broadcasting of DRW’s seminar at the Almedalen Week here Better interviews from the start, and better cooperation between authorities; these were often the proposed solutions to the problems discussed at Disabled Refugees Welcomes’s seminar at the Almedalen Week. Non-normative abilities and needs for support should be identified…
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Disabled Refugees Welcome at the Almedalen Week!

Welcome, whoever you are? There is a lot of discussions, debates and such about newcomers, migration and integration within today’s political debate. Most people agree that the integration is dysfunctional, but there are varying points of view on how to improve it. However, there is a clear trend of increasing…
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Network visit at Individuell Människohjälp (IM)

On Wednesday the 23rd of May the DRW team visited Individuell Människohjälp. IM is a Swedish development partner that has existed since 1938 and was founded by Brita Holmström. The international work of IM focuses on areas within education, health and self-provision while the emphasis within Sweden is on mutual…
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DRW in Aimday Disability in Uppsala

The 26th of April, Disabled Refugees Welcome, DRW participated in Aimday Disability at SUF Resource Centre in Uppsala.   Discussion on disability issues. Aimday is an initiative to enable professionals working with disability issues, individuals with personal experience of disability and researchers to meet and discuss ways to reduce obstacles…
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A study about the arabic speaking participants in DRW

DRW interview report: Nine participants with Arabic as a common denominator Introduction: This report is written on the study of the first nine interviews that the Disabled Refugees Welcome project team carried out with people who speak Arabic as a native language or as an official language of the countries…
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Language, an issue of accessibility

Is the communication between migrants with non-normative abilities and Swedish authorities deficient? At the roundtable dialogue number two with representatives for the Social Services Administration, City of Stockholm, Chavia Ali, field worker within the DRW project described the communication during meetings between newcomers with non-normative abilities and the Swedish authorities.…
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(Svenska) Nadia Hadad visits Independent Living Institute and the DRW team

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(Svenska) Monthly drop-in

Eritrean visit The 25h of April, Disabled Refugees Welcome got a pleasant surprise when 30 newcomers from Eritrea visited us. It was a good mix of people, where elderly, women, men and families with children shared a common worry – how would they manage in Sweden without support? The day…
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(Svenska) Kvot-projektet ska se över mottagandet av kvotflyktingar

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Coordination North

The 23rd of April, representatives for DRW participated in a network meeting with Coordination North, an important operator within the field of integration for newcomers in the Stockholm region. Among others, DRW met Josefin Daleskog who is coordinating strategist for the coordination in the north of Stockholm; this is administered…
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(Svenska) Rundabordssamtal del 2:

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(Svenska) Round table del 2

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This month Unheard hero:

The charismatic and positive Hany [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="261"] Hany smiling in his wheel chair .[/caption] Hany Hassan Mohamed Nasr is a disabled asylum seeker who came to Sweden seven months ago. Hany came to Sweden via Paris by plane, from France to Holland and then to Sweden. An Egyptian…
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The DRW Unheard heroes

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="455"] Illustration of an elephant and a cat on a rainy day sharing one little umbrella[/caption] Unheard heroes is a series of stories about the Disabled Refugees experiences, feelings, thoughts and wishes. DRW is creating this space as a platform for disabled newcomers in Sweden to express…
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(Svenska) Monthly drop-in

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(Svenska) Öppet hus:

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(Svenska) Disabled Refugees Welcome -Interview study results

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(Svenska) En lyckad temadag 1- LSS och Migration

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(Svenska) Studiebesök på Delaktighet Handlingskraft Rörelsefrihet – DHR

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Disabled Refugees Welcome held our first roundtable

- with the City of Stockholm on Valentine’s day Wednesday the 14th of February 2018, Disabled Refugees Welcome held our first roundtable event with the City of Stockholm. Valentine’s day is a good day to share the issue close to our hearts - Welcoming Disabled Refugees. A roundtable is a…
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DRW meets BOSSE – advice, support and knowledge centre [BOSSE råd, stöd och kunskapscenter]

DRW met one of the longest-serving and activity agencies for migrants with physical non-normative abilities (a.k.a physical impairments). The agency started in 1981 as a project, then called ”Huvudstaprojektet”, funded by the National Heritage Fund - Arvsfonden. The agency took the name the unit for accommodation and services [Bostads- och…
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(Svenska) Nätverks – enkät

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Get involved

Everyone can support this initiative with anything, every little thing makes a difference. If you want to help us by sharing your skills and interests with us  you can do it by filling out this form here. Disabled Refugees Welcome is an initiative that started due to the silence, isolation…
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Don’t miss our theme days in spring!

DRW aims to start the year with series of theme days during the spring and is inviting authorities, organizations and other interested in disability rights, integration questions and migration.  Save the dates! Theme day 1: LSS and migration - How does migration status affect the right of self-determination?  What is the…
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The New Moderates’ proposal risks to limit newcomers rights even further.

The issues of migration and integration have been present in societal news, newspaper and on social media during recent years. Relevant for the work of Disabled Refugees Welcome within this debate is the temporary change of the migration law enacted in the summer of 2016. According to this temporary legal…
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Julius Ntobuah talks about his journey to Sweden and the project Disabled Refugees Welcome

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DRW Mobilization

DRW will soon be inviting organizations to respond a survey about their work with disabled newcomers kommer. The survey will take approximately 5 minutes to fill in and aims to create network of disability organizations who in different ways work with newcomers. Our ambition is to create better understanding about…
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DRW’s latest recruitment – Chavia Ali!

The team behind DRW is growing with a new competent co-worker Chavie Ali. Chavia has moved to Sweden from Syria and has long experience of disability issue. Read more about her here.
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Happy New Year!!

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(Svenska) Fria tidningen skriver om DRW

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Welcome to the DRW’s homepage

Disabled Refugees Welcome (DRW) is a project run by Independent Living Institute (ILI) and is designed to work for the rights of disabled newcomers in Sweden. On this webpage you as a visitor can follow the project, take part of our reports and other topic specific material that we have…
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