ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how disability services both foster citizenship and enforce constraints on citizenship rights. Hence, contrary to the standard interpretation, the emergence of politics of inclusion did not simply move power from state representatives to disabled individuals; it transformed how power governs the individuals targeted. Group homes are usually located in either suburban residential areas of self-contained houses, where the group home is often visibly separated from other houses in the neighbourhood, or in regular housing estates. Many people with intellectual disabilities spend a large part of their life within the confines of the group home, perhaps going to sheltered employment centres for work and leaving for daytrips together with other tenants during the weekends. Since developing skill sets necessary for citizenship is seen as integral to working at the group home, there is a need to coordinate and plan how these processes are managed. A common way of doing this is to discuss tenants at monthly staff meetings.
