French Support and Work Assistance Establishment and Social and Professional Integration of Workers With Disabilities in Rural Areas. The Example of Habert (Savoie, France)

Authors

  • Meddy Escuriet Territoires, VetAgro Sup, AgroParisTech, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3518-9013
  • Mauricette Fournier Territoires, VetAgro Sup, AgroParisTech, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9961-3621
  • Sophie Vuilbert Territoires, VetAgro Sup, AgroParisTech, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4797-3646

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21814/rlec.3492

Keywords:

France, disability, support and work assistance establishment, social and professional inclusion, rural area

Abstract

This article proposes to address the issue of inclusion through work and in a rural environment of people with mental disabilities and/or intellectual disabilities. Through the example of a French support and work assistance establishment, the support and work assistance establishment Le Habert, located in a small rural and mountainous village in the Alps and offering people with disabilities to work on a farm, the article will first address the importance of work as a means for people to regain their dignity. Between the feeling of usefulness and pride in participating in the operation of one territory, by being fully involved in the process of producing and adding value to a product, accompanying the farm allows, apart from these therapeutic virtues, a real professional inclusion. Living in houses or apartments in the surrounding villages, the accommodation, allowing contact between people with disabilities and local inhabitants is also a vector of social inclusion. However, while the rural setting can be an asset for inclusion because of the professional and social opportunities, the isolation and geographical inaccessibility of the rural mountainous environment can be an obstacle for people who do not necessarily have the means to be mobile. By offering personalised support for mobility, the institution transforms geographical exclusion into an asset for professional, social and spatial inclusion.

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Author Biographies

Meddy Escuriet, Territoires, VetAgro Sup, AgroParisTech, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Meddy Escuriet is a researcher at UMR Territoires (France), followed a course in geography and regional planning at the University of Clermont-Auvergne, which led him to defend in 2021 a doctoral thesis entitled Geography and Living to Identify Disability Situations: Environmental Approach to Disability and Evaluation of a Medico-Social Support System. He is very involved in contemporary thinking on disability. He has also participated in research programs, as Haccescol, on access to education, and Equipping the Territories to Allow More Choices to Live and Work With a Handicap in Rural Areas. He is currently an inter-sector trainer at the Institut de Travail Social de la Région Auvergne.

Mauricette Fournier, Territoires, VetAgro Sup, AgroParisTech, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Mauricette Fournier holds a PhD in geography. She is a university professor and researcher at UMR Territoires and Université Clermont-Auvergne (France), responsible for the master’s degree in social innovation and territorial development. Her research focuses on social and cultural geography and local development issues. Her interest in disability issues drove her to lead two research programmes on this topic in recent years. The Haccescol, a programme of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Clermont-Ferrand on access to education, and the Equipping the Territories to Allow More Choices to Live and Work With a Handicap in Rural Areas, an action research carried out for the International Foundation of Applied Disability Research.

Sophie Vuilbert, Territoires, VetAgro Sup, AgroParisTech, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Sophie Vuilbert, after initial training and several professional experiences in the medico-social field, has resumed studies in geography and regional planning. She holds a masters degree and participated as a research engineer in the program Equipping the Territories to Allow More Choices to Live and Work With a Handicap in Rural Areas. Member of UMR Territoires, she began in 2021 a doctoral thesis on french support and work assistance establishment at the University of Clermont-Auvergne (France).

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Published

2021-12-22

How to Cite

Escuriet, M., Fournier, M., & Vuilbert, S. (2021). French Support and Work Assistance Establishment and Social and Professional Integration of Workers With Disabilities in Rural Areas. The Example of Habert (Savoie, France). Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies, 8(2), 41–61. https://doi.org/10.21814/rlec.3492