Screening Out: HIV Testing and the Canadian Immigration Experience

An ethnographic inquiry into how HIV screening is used in the Canadian immigration system. 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 s...