Not Good Enough for Canada Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Diseases and/or Disabilities, 1902-2002
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Valentina Capurri is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography & Environmental Studies at Ryerson University.
Not Good Enough for Canada Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Diseases and/or Disabilities, 1902-2002
Not Good Enough for Canada investigates the development of Canadian immigration policy with respect to persons with a disease or disability throughout the twentieth century. With an emphasis on social history, this book examines the way the state operates through legislation to achieve its goals of self-preservation even when such legislation contradicts state commitments to equality rights.
Looking at the ways federal politicians, mainstream media, and the judicial system have perceived persons with disabilities, specifically immigrant applicants with disabilities, this book reveals how Canadian immigration policy has systematically omitted any reference to this group, rendering them socially invisible.
Introduction: The Personal and the Political
1. The Right Citizen
2. Parliament and Medically Inadmissible Immigrants
3. Medical Admissibility: Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, 1902-1985
4. Medical Admissibility: Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, 1985-2002
5. Medical Admissibility in the Federal and Supreme Courts of Canada
Conclusion
Appendix: Changes to the Medical Admissibility Provision in Canadian Immigration Policy, 1869-2001
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Not Good Enough for Canada investigates the development of Canadian immigration policy with respect to persons with a disease or disability throughout the twentieth century. With an emphasis on social history, this book examines the way the state operates through legislation to achieve its goals of self-preservation even when such legislation contradicts state commitments to equality rights.
Looking at the ways federal politicians, mainstream media, and the judicial system have perceived persons with disabilities, specifically immigrant applicants with disabilities, this book reveals how Canadian immigration policy has systematically omitted any reference to this group, rendering them socially invisible.
Introduction: The Personal and the Political
1. The Right Citizen
2. Parliament and Medically Inadmissible Immigrants
3. Medical Admissibility: Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, 1902-1985
4. Medical Admissibility: Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, 1985-2002
5. Medical Admissibility in the Federal and Supreme Courts of Canada
Conclusion
Appendix: Changes to the Medical Admissibility Provision in Canadian Immigration Policy, 1869-2001
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Valentina Capurri is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography & Environmental Studies at Ryerson University.