Disabled upon arrival : eugenics, immigration, and the construction of race and disability /

"In North America, immigration has never been about immigration. That was true in the early twentieth century when anti-immigrant rhetoric led to draconian crackdowns on the movement of bodies, and it is true today as new measures seek to construct migrants as dangerous and undesirable. This pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dolmage, Jay (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Eugenics > Social aspects > United States.
Eugenics > Social aspects > Canada.
Rhetoric > Social aspects > United States.
Rhetoric > Social aspects > Canada.
People with disabilities > Social aspects.
Eugénisme > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Eugénisme > Aspect social > Canada.
Rhétorique > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Rhétorique > Aspect social > Canada.
Personnes handicapées > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Eugenics > Social aspects
Rhetoric > Social aspects
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Canada > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
Canada
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Immigration has never been about immigration
  • Island : Ellis Island and the inventions of race and disability
  • Pier : Canada's Pier 21 and the memorialization of immigration
  • Explosion : Technologies of immigration restriction
  • Archive : Affective spaces of eugenics
  • Conclusion : Responsibility for tomorrow.

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