Cordon Sanitaire or Healthy Policy? How Prospective Immigrants with HIV are Organized by Canada’s Mandatory HIV Screening Policy

Cordon Sanitaire or Healthy Policy? How Prospective Immigrants with HIV are Organized by Canada’s Mandatory HIV Screening Policy

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Since 2002, the Canadian state has mandatorily tested applicants for permanent residence for HIV (Human immune deficiency virus). The policy and practices associated with this screening have never been critically scrutinized. Authoritative claims about what happens in the conduct of the immigration...

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Main Author: Bisaillon, Laura
Other Authors: Holmes, Dave
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2012
Subjects:
HIV/AIDS
immigration medical examination
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
institutional ethnography
ruling relations
social organization
textual mediation
mandatory HIV testing
political activist ethnography
policy
Canada HIV/AIDS screening
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20643
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-5410

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http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20643
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-5410

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