943 Intellectual and developmental disabilities in Arab society in Israel: Intersectionality perspective Leena Badran, Ayelet Gur, Wafa Badran and Michael Ashley Stein Abstract People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in Arab society in Israel are at high risk of experiencing discrimination, due both to their disability status and membership within an ethnic minority group. This chapter reviews research on Arabs in Israel with IDD and their families from the perspective of intersectionality. The concept of intersectionality arose from feminist and racial theories to describe the prejudicial consequences of belonging to a number of protected groups. Intersectionality provides a lens for understanding individuals’ multiple identities (e.g., disability, gender, race) and how these identities interact to shape experiences in specific contexts. Intersectionality is thus an analytic tool that considers the meaning of membership in multiple social groups, including the effects of identification with multiple categories beyond the mainstream. Although extensive literature has investigated the impact upon people with disabilities, women, the elderly, and minorities of their respective identities limitting social opportunities, the combined effect Chapter on page 381
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