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Screening Out

HIV Testing and the Canadian Immigration Experience

By: Laura Bisaillon

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Screening Out

HIV Testing and the Canadian Immigration Experience

By: Laura Bisaillon

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.

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UBC Press

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0774867507

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9780774867504

Bookspeak!

Poems about Books

By: Laura Purdie Salas

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Poems about Books

By: Laura Purdie Salas

Presents a series of poems which pay tribute to the limitless worlds available through books, as characters plead for sequels, strut fancy jackets, and have a raucous party in the aisles after a bookstore closes for the night.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547223005

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9780547223001

Screening Out

HIV Testing and the Canadian Immigration Experience

By: Laura Bisaillon

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HIV Testing and the Canadian Immigration Experience

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Political Activist Ethnography

Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle

By: Agnieszka Doll ,Laura Bisaillon,Kevin Walby

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Political Activist Ethnography

Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle

By: Agnieszka Doll ,Laura Bisaillon,Kevin Walby

As activists strategize, build resistance, and foster solidarity, they also call for better dialogue between researchers and movements and for research that can aid their causes. In this volume, contributors examine how research can produce knowledge for social transformation by using political activist ethnography, a unique social research strategy that uses political confrontation as a resource and focuses on moments and spaces of direct struggle to reveal how ruling regimes are organized so activists and social movements can fight them. Featuring research from Aotearoa (New Zealand), Bangladesh, Canada, Poland, South Africa, and the United States on matters as diverse as anti-poverty organizing, prisoners’ re-entry, anti-fracking campaigns, left-inspired think-tank development, non-governmental partnerships, involuntary psychiatric admission, and perils of immigration medical examination, contributors to this volume adopt a “bottom-up” approach to inquiry to produce knowledge for activists, not about them. A must-read for humanities and social sciences scholars keen on assisting activists and advancing social change.

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275

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Athabasca University Press

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1771993995

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9781771993999

Bookspeak!

Poems About Books

By: Laura Purdie Salas

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Poems About Books

By: Laura Purdie Salas

A collection of wacky, whimsical poems about books and all the treasures they contain. Laura Purdie Salas, the acclaimed author of Stampede!, is back with another collection of wild and weird, wacky and winsome poems about all the magic to be found on a single bookshelf. In BookSpeak!, each poem gives voice to a group that seldom gets a voice . . . the books themselves! Characters plead for sequels, book jackets strut their stuff, and we get a sneak peek at the raucous parties in the aisles when all the lights go out at the bookstore!Illustrator Josée Bisaillon’s mixture of collage, drawings, and digital montage presents page after page of richly colored spreads filled with action and charm. Together, Salas and Bisaillon deliver a unique collection brimming with ideas as much about spines and dust jackets as they are about adventure and imagination.

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HarperCollins

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0547677618

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