ABSTRACT
In this chapter I examine Ukraine’s burgeoning disability rights movement through the lens of citizenship to illustrate the complex processes through which certain categories of people (here, persons with disabilities) are transforming themselves-and being transformed-into particular types of citizens in a changing welfare state. 1 I take an institutional and relational approach to understanding citizenship, a tack that has recently been used by scholars such as Margaret Somers ( 1994 , 1995 ) and Allison Carey ( 2003 ), to shed light on the complex intersections of agency, power, and personhood that struggles for post-socialist social justice entail.
