This under the radar benefits cut reminds us why disability justice must centre migrants’ rights

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Manjeet Kaur, a human rights campaigner who died, aged 41, in 2020 in Manchester, sought asylum in the UK from Afghanistan in March 2011.</p><p>In this photo in her wheelchair, she’s smiling holding a chalkboard placard that says 'Disabled People Unite Against The Bedroom Tax'.https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Manjeet-Kaur-disabled-migrant-720x540.png" width="720" />The Labour government is floating another vicious programme of sweeping cuts to disabled people’s welfare.

However, the public could be forgiven for not knowing about these because nowhere in the media or wider sociopolitical disability discourse is anyone talking about them like this is what they are.

Notably, while the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) […]


By https://www.thecanary.co/author/hannah-sharland/">Hannah Sharland

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