ABSTRACT
Over the past two decades, we have witnessed a growing interest, in the form of research and publications, in international students’ accounts of residing and studying on worldwide campuses. However, there is an acute shortage of research and documentation on the experiences of disabled international students. This is despite the fact that disabled international students not only are confronted by the same barriers as the separate groups of disabled students and international students but also inevitably face their own unique set of difficulties resulting from the intersectionality of their identities of being disabled and culturally different in their host countries. One such barrier is the differing interpretation of the term ‘disability’ in various cultural contexts. As such, a key point to consider when conducting research with disabled international students is that the socially accepted interpretations of who is and who is not disabled are specific to a given culture and time. Based on the authors’ experience of doing research with disabled international students, the focus of this chapter is therefore centred on making the research process inclusive for international students with a range of impairments.
