Différence cranio-faciale et handicap d’apparence: fragilité impensée d’un "peuple invisible"

Abstract

The concept of craniofacial difference refers to a set of innate or acquired conditions causing facial abnormalities. While craniofacial difference is usually understood as an individual fact and is currently overlooked in the definitions of disability that govern disability policies, this study addresses it in its disregarded social dimensions, as shown in a case of the Supreme Court of Canada (2021). The study then proposes a theological reflection on how the craniofacial anomaly destabilizes certain patterns that guide our visions of the world and how it invites us to engage in a different relationship to reality and the meaning of life.