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This essay explores the changing shape of transitions from education to employment amongst deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHOH) youth in Russia. It draws on survey and interview data to show that, despite the formal institution of inclusive policies and legal frameworks at the state level, the choices open to DHOH youth remain heavily limited, and become narrower at each stage of their transitions to adulthood. This narrowing of horizons and attendant marginalisation stems from the ongoing salience of disabling, medical approaches to deafness; a lack of enabling practices or resources to support DHOH youth in the education system; and widespread discrimination from employers.
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190471
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The post-Soviet era began with wide-ranging economic and institutional dislocations that had an enormous impact on the lives of most people in the societies affected. In the first years of the 1990s, poverty, morbidity and mortality rates grew to unprecedented levels, as birth rates declined (Haub Citation1994). While few escaped the consequences of the collapse of state socialism, it was clear that certain groups were especially marginalised in the new market environment (Field & Twigg Citation2000). The children of the poor, children and young people in state institutions, people with physical and mental disabilities, the elderly and economic migrants travelling to other countries in search of work, came to experience new levels of social exclusion, as neither the remnants of Soviet welfare states nor the new market economy provided them with social security.
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