TY - JFULL AU - Jihye Jeon PY - 2014/10/ TI - Political and Economic Transition of People with Disabilities Related to Globalization T2 - International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences SP - 3119 EP - 3127 VL - 8 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10000930 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 93, 2014 N2 - This paper analyzes the political and economic issues that people with disabilities face related to globalization; how people with disabilities have been adapting globalization and surviving under worldwide competition system. It explains that economic globalization exacerbates inequality and deprivation of people with disabilities. The rising tide of neo-liberal welfare policies emphasized efficiency, downsized social expenditure for people with disabilities, excluded people with disabilities against labor market, and shifted them from welfare system to nothing. However, there have been people with disabilities' political responses to globalization, which are characterized by a global network of people with disabilities as well as participation to global governance. Their resistance can be seen as an attempt to tackle the problems that economic globalization has produced. It is necessary paradigm shift of disability policy from dependency represented by disability benefits to independency represented by labor market policies for people with disabilities. ER -