Abstract
Poverty is much experienced by disabled people and vice versa. Having less or even no chance to public access has caused the feeling of uncertainty and social unworthiness. Social insecurity triggers anxiety about everything, and mostly about people’s self-confidence to create a relationship with others. Of Mice and Men represents society’s bad treatment for two disabled characters. The paralyzed condition, which is also worsened by their low-financial status, makes the two characters have some problems in adapting themselves to society. This paper aims to discuss kinds of social insecurity constituted at the intersection of disabilities and poverty using qualitative research analysis and descriptive methods. Intersectionality theory helps this paper to see and understand how oppression is formed because of people’s multiple identities. The result of this paper showed that the multiple identities of disabled people become barriers that give them the feeling of insecure to build relations with others and improve their life.
Highlights
People with disabilities have experienced isolation and dependence on others
Based on the explanation above, this paper aims to discuss the issue of social insecurity confronted by two disabled people
People with disabilities often meet negative stereotypes and exclusion from society. Their incompetence to meet society’s demands forces them to stay within their limits. It gives an impact on the self-development of the disabled person
Summary
People with disabilities have experienced isolation and dependence on others. They need others’ help in their daily activity. People with intellectual and physical disabilities are even isolated by society Disabled people have more risks to oppression and subjugation when they have less knowledge, poor financial status, and discrimination This condition will trigger the feeling of insecurity for them. Insecurity is described as the state of having a lack of control and the individual’s recognized risk of victimization (Farrall, Gray, & Jackson, 2007, as cited in Reid et al, 2020). This description shows how disabled people have a risk to feel fear and anxiety. They are vulnerable to being a victim in social life because of their multiple identities
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