ABSTRACT
This chapter examines urban refugees’ everyday life, and the associated feelings of insecurity and protection, in the capital city of Uganda, Kampala. In various United Nations Refugee Agency policies there is an explicit link between refugee protection and community, particularly in the urban settings of the Global South. Disabled refugees’ participation in decision-making regarding their protection is analysed as a collective right argued for in the support group and pursued through various methods of action to counteract individual and collective exclusion. The analysis that follows the description of the data and field context focuses on disabled refugees’ right to the city as communal rights to participate in the activities of support group, to access and occupy urban space, and to appropriate insecure spaces into spaces of protection. The refugees with disabilities support group faced challenges regarding their rights to access, occupy and use space in Kampala.
