Human rights violation against people with disabilities

In this paper, I tackle the immigrants’ selection system under the 2001 Immigration and Refugee Protection Act since the system legally allows the rejection of the permeant resident status of people with disabilities based on health criteria. I argue that this immigration system is fundamentally discriminatory to people with disabilities due to its exclusive and prejudicial approach regarding people with disabilities. The exclusion is tightly related to the valorization of people with disabilities based on the cost-benefit analysis of the society. Also, I go on to consider how the nature of citizenship rights has been constructed on the basis of the mixture of liberalism, eugenic discourses and moral narratives that resulted in the exclusion and marginalization of people with disabilities. After critically presenting the issues of exclusion from citizenship rights framework in the refuge and immigration policy, I suggest an equitable vision of legislation design by providing an outlook for the reconstruction of the concept of citizenship from the perspective of the international human rights and justice