Understanding the body and disability in Chinese contexts

Qu, Yuanyuan

doi:10.1080/09687599.2019.1649123

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“…An influential factor that has contributed to lack of further integration in the workplace in China stems from people's traditional perceptions about people with disabilities. The Chinese word term for people with disabilities is 'canji,' which refers to disease and incompleteness (Qu 2020). Based on a medical model, the 'canji' terminology renders disabled people as flawed.…”

Section: Barriers To Fulfilling the Vision Of An Integrated Workforcementioning

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The quota system for employment of people with disabilities in China: Policy, practice, barriers, and ways forward

Liao

2020

Disability & Society

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Quota systems represent one of the most important and widely used approaches to promote the employment of people with disabilities in many countries around the world. Extant literature has focused on how quota systems have been implemented in some European countries and some Asian countries. Few studies, however, have examined the situation in China, where a formal law and regulations for a quota system for disability employment was established over the past three decades. This paper addresses this gap by presenting background on the development of China's quota employment policies, examining the inconsistencies between policy and implementation, and identifying feasible ways to enhance the policy's use to create more inclusion in employment in public and private sectors.

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Section: Barriers To Fulfilling the Vision Of An Integrated Workforcementioning

confidence: 99%

The quota system for employment of people with disabilities in China: Policy, practice, barriers, and ways forward

Liao

2020

Disability & Society

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“…As suggested in traditional Chinese culture, PWDs are perceived as individual tragedies, their impaired body implies a moral or social loss, and they cannot fulfill their responsibility to their family and society ( 36 ). In Chinese history, PWDs are called canfei , which means useless and incapable, and they were given negative labels such as “parasite”, “crap”, “dependency”, “burden”, and “troublesome” ( 24 ).…”

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Supportive or Confining? The Impact of War Metaphors From the COVID-19 Pandemic on Persons With Disabilities in Mainland China

Chen

Zhong-ming

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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Ensuring the well-being of persons with disabilities (PWDs) is a priority in the public sector during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To contain this unprecedented public crisis in China, a set of nationwide anti-epidemic discourse systems centered on war metaphors has guided the epidemic's prevention and control. While the public is immersed in the joy brought by the stage victory, most ignore the situation of the disadvantaged PWDs. Accordingly, this study adopts and presents a qualitative research method to explore the impact of war metaphors on PWDs. The results showed that while there was some formal and informal support for PWDs during this period, they were increasingly marginalized. Owing to the lack of a disability lens and institutional exclusion, PWDs were placed on the margins of the epidemic prevention and control system like outsiders. Affected by pragmatism under war metaphors, PWDs are regarded as non-contributory or inefficient persons; therefore, they are not prioritized and are thus placed into a state of being voiceless and invisible. This research can provide inspiration for improving public services for PWDs in the context of COVID-19.

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“…In the formal employment sector, dibao eligibility, based on compensating work incapacity, and the quota system, based on compensating those persons with a low capacity for work, have been conceptualized as competing choices for persons with severe disabilities. We found no evidence that the generosity of benefits from dibao eligibility encouraged persons with disabilities to leave the labor market as related studies have suggested in welfare states [ 9 , 10 ].This may be largely due to the fact that benefits remain low despite the number of benefit sources and very limited prospects in the labor market resulting from inadequate building accessibility, as well as institutional and attitudinal employment exclusion based on the ideology of “a medically impaired body, an equal but to-be-cared-for body, and a less capable body to be compensated for with either social support or individual endeavors” [ 46 ]. Like the previous studies [ 47 ], we restate that the current Chinese disability policy structure—focusing on developing social support, especially cash benefits based on the legislative category of disability—has recognized the right of persons with disabilities.…”

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How Disability Income Benefits Affect Employment for Persons with Disabilities in China: An Impairment-Based Work Disability Assessment Perspective

Hao

Xiao

2022

IJERPH

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Reconciling the potentially conflicting goals between income benefits and employment has become one of the key issues in international disability policy for working-age persons with disabilities. Inspired by the often-criticized experience of disability income benefits having an exclusory effect on employment of persons with disabilities in welfare states by two mechanisms—the disincentive effect of the generous benefits based on the work incapacity of persons with disabilities and the impairment-based work disability assessment for attaining these benefits—this paper aims to examine how disability income benefits affect employment for persons with disabilities in China. Using the life-story interviews method, this paper found that the disability income benefits for persons with disabilities based on their work incapability create “quasi-employment” perceptions among recipients with disabilities. The impairment-based work disability assessment for attaining these benefits excludes persons with disabilities from formal employment but does open them to more informal employment. Implications for policy are discussed.

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Understanding the body and disability in Chinese contexts

Cited by 17 publications

References 28 publications

The quota system for employment of people with disabilities in China: Policy, practice, barriers, and ways forward

The quota system for employment of people with disabilities in China: Policy, practice, barriers, and ways forward

Supportive or Confining? The Impact of War Metaphors From the COVID-19 Pandemic on Persons With Disabilities in Mainland China

How Disability Income Benefits Affect Employment for Persons with Disabilities in China: An Impairment-Based Work Disability Assessment Perspective

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