Disabled people, medical inadmissibility, and the differential politics of immigration Journal Articles uri icon

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abstract

  • Key Messages Medical inadmissibility provisions in Canada's immigration law exclude some disabled applicants on the basis that they would place “excessive demand” on health and social services. These statutory provisions construct disabled persons as burdensome, with little acknowledgment of the potential contributions such applicants might make to Canada. Recent legal cases have contested this narrow reading of disability, but have yet to challenge the underlying assumptions of the provision.

publication date

  • September 2017