Screening Out: HIV Testing and the Canadian Immigration Experience by Laura Bisa

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A critical, compassionate, and highly readable narrative-driven analysis, this is the first-ever inquiry into how the Canadian immigration medical program works in practice to screen out people with HIV.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

What happens when people with HIV apply to immigrate to Canada? Screening Out takes readers through the process of seeking permanent residency, illustrating how mandatory HIV testing and the medical inadmissibility regime are organized in such a way as to make such applications impossible. This ethnographic inquiry into the medico-legal and administrative practices governing the Canadian immigration system shows how this system works from the perspective of the very people toward whom this exclusionary health policy is directed.As Laura Bisaillon demonstrates, mandatory immigration HIV screening triggers institutional practices that are highly problematic not only for would-be immigrants, but also for those bureaucrats, doctors, and lawyers who work within that system. She provides a vital corrective to state claims about the functioning of – and the professional and administrative practices supporting – mandatory HIV testing and medical examination, pinpointing how and where things need to change.

Author Biography

Laura Bisaillon is a political sociologist and associate professor in the Department of Health and Society at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Through journal articles, scholarly blogs, documentary film, photography, and creative writing, her research investigates interactions between migration, health, and the state. She has held research fellowships at the Brocher Foundation, Geneva, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam. The research on which this book is based was awarded a Governor General's Gold Medal.

Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroduction1 "Good Chickens" and "Bad Chickens": The Immigration Application2 "It would be great to have you move to Canada": The Medical Examination3 "It was just a form. I did not get a copy": The Immigration DoctorConclusionNotes; Index

Review

"An excellent ethnographic account of how mandatory HIV testing has become an ominous tool for rendering permanent resident applications 'medically inadmissible' in the Canadian federal immigration system, leaving some people in even more precarious circumstances than where they began." -- Chris Sanders, Lakehead University * Sociology of Health & Illness *Laura Bisaillon's Screening Out is a brilliant and much needed study of one barely known aspect of the Canadian immigration system: the medical screening of immigration applicants and the mandatory testing for HIV. -- Valentina Capurri, Toronto Metropolitan University * Canadian Journal of Disability Studies *

Long Description

What happens when people with HIV apply to immigrate to Canada? Screening Out takes readers through the process of seeking permanent residency, illustrating how mandatory HIV testing and the medical inadmissibility regime are organized in such a way as to make such applications impossible. This ethnographic inquiry into the medico-legal and administrative practices governing the Canadian immigration system shows how this system works from the perspective of the very people toward whom this exclusionary health policy is directed. As Laura Bisaillon demonstrates, mandatory immigration HIV screening triggers institutional practices that are highly problematic not only for would-be immigrants, but also for those bureaucrats, doctors, and lawyers who work within that system. She provides a vital corrective to state claims about the functioning of - and the professional and administrative practices supporting - mandatory HIV testing and medical examination, pinpointing how and where things need to change.

Review Quote

" Screening Out is critically important to scholarship in (im)migration and health. Its concrete recommendations for policy change are key."

Description for Reader

Canada's population grows because of and through its immigration program. But what happens for people with HIV who apply to settle permanently? The immigration system - a core social institution in Canada - includes mandatory HIV screening within a medical inadmissibility regime designed to exclude people with HIV. This is a narrative-driven analysis of the medico-legal and administrative practices governing immigration to Canada. Following the sequence of events in the application process of a woman from sub-Saharan Africa in her interactions with an immigration doctor of western European descent, Screening Out is an institutional ethnographic mapping of the Canadian immigration process from the perspective of the very people to whom the exclusionary health policy is directed. As Laura Bisaillon demonstrates, mandatory HIV screening triggers institutional practices that are highly problematic not only for would-be immigrants, but also for those bureaucrats, doctors, lawyers, and other actors who work for and within the Canadian immigration system. She provides a vital corrective to state claims about the functioning of - and the professional and administrative practices supporting - mandatory HIV testing and medical examination, showing how and where things need to change.

Description for Teachers/Educators

This compassionate and highly readable analysis will appeal to readers interested in political sociology, immigration studies, sociolegal studies, and disability studies, as well as to HIV/AIDS activists and the Canadian general public.

Details ISBN0774867485 Author Laura Bisaillon Short Title Screening Out Publisher University of British Columbia Press Language English ISBN-10 0774867485 ISBN-13 9780774867481 Format Paperback Subtitle HIV Testing and the Canadian Immigration Experience Pages 304 Imprint University of British Columbia Press Place of Publication Vancouver Country of Publication Canada UK Release Date 2022-12-15 Year 2022 Publication Date 2022-12-15 DEWEY 362.196979200971 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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