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.
