Review of Implementation in 2012: Report of Research Activities and Expenditure 2012 – Protection of Refugees with Disabilities

The research team travelled to Malaysia in early June 2012, and was joined by a researcher already present in Malaysia who had experience working with UNHCR there. The research team employed mixed research methods. Researchers held qualitative focus and discussion groups with Refugee Ethnic Community representatives, Malaysian human rights NGOs and Malaysian Disabled Persons Organisations (DPOs), carried out interviews with UNHCR Malaysia officials, and using purposive sampling, conducted individual interviews with one hundred and fifty-one refugees and asylum seekers with disabilities (and their families) in Kuala Lumpur and surrounding areas. Of these, 111 were adults and 40 were under 18 years of age.