Universidade e coletivos: a organização de pessoas com deficiência na luta pelos seus direitos

Abstract

The university, due to affirmative policies, has received an increasing number of students with disabilities.  This research seeks to identify whether people with disabilities, inserted in the context of higher education, have organized themselves into collectives to guarantee of rights. The research was carried out with 186 university students with disabilities, from the five regions of the country, who answered a sociodemographic questionnaire and questions related to disability and the collective organization of this group.  The data were analyzed through content analysis, via word cloud and thematic analysis.  The results indicate that university students with disabilities did not collectively organize themselves in the country.  They also show that the factors that generate inclusion and exclusion are the same: the presence or absence of welcoming and belonging and the existence or not of accessibility.  Questions from these results are raised, opening agendas for future research.