Socialisation inachevee de la personne en situation de handicap: comment repenser la liminalite?

Liminality reflects the varied, multiple, complex and specific life contexts of people with disabilities. These contexts are marked by a succession of trials, periods of transition, initiation and social breakdown. Liminality only makes sense when referring to rituals, to the threshold moments between one life situation and another. Considered as a framework for analysing disability situations, this article takes an inclusive approach to liminality. Inclusive in the sense that it focuses on the situation of disability. The situational nature of disability requires us to assess, re-evaluate and over-evaluate, and to take into account the person's living context, their impairment(s), incapacities and activity limitations, their living environment, the quality of their social interactions and their needs. It has to be said that one of the major needs of people with disabilities is and remains inclusion, belonging to a group without distinction, being accepted and recognised as a full member in the same way as everyone else. However, this desire for full socialisation on the part of people with disabilities remains far from being achieved, not only because of personal barriers but also because of the environmental obstacles involved in the process of producing disability.