Screening Out

"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

"The knowledge and insight that Screening Out provides into the previously hidden inner workings of Canadian immigration policy and practice would significantly benefit all audiences."

~Rachel Cruz, Osgoode Hall Law Journal

"Screening Out is a well-researched testimony that offers a voice to those who have been placed by the immigration process in a space devoid of the very rights that Canadians proudly define for themselves."

~Cliff Pereira, University of Hong Kong, British Journal of Canadian Studies

"Screening Out is essential reading for a general audience unfamiliar with the Canadian immigration process and governmental institutional systems."

~Kevin Madill, Medical Humanities

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