A sense of belonging to discriminated groups among people with disabilities in Poland

Abstract

In the second half of the lastcentury, representatives of disabled communities took steps with the objective of social inclusion and promotinganti-discriminatory solutions. Along with this activity came efforts to tackle the issues of disability in the academic discourse and public debate. In retrospect, the question of the effectiveness of these activities remains reasonable. In this context, the article is an attempt to indicate the scale of the sense of belonging to groups discriminated against among people with disabilities in Poland. In pursuing this objective, anattempt was made to answer three questions, (1) how the percentage of people with disabilities declaring belonging to discriminated groups has changed over the years; (2) what part of them indicated discrimination due to disability, and (3) whether disability (subjected to the control of the influence of other variables) was a significant predictor of the sense of discrimination. The analysis was carried out with data collected in nine cycles of surveys conducted between 2002 and 2018 as part of the European Social Survey.