Dr. Laura Bisaillon
Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Centre for Health and Society, University of Toronto Scarborough
Canadian immigration medical inadmissibility; feminism; forced migration; Horn of Africa; institutional ethnography; medicine and the law; minoritization; social studies of HIV/AIDS; sociology of health and illness.
Media
HIV/AIDS Awareness
CTV News (Edmonton), February 7, 2017Television
New Report Suggests Racism in Canadian Newspaper Articles About HIV
Global TV News (Edmonton), February 7, 2017Television
CKNW Radio Jill Bennett Show (Vancouver), February 12, 2017Radio/Podcast
A Ray of Hope on World AIDS Day for Canadian Immigrants
The Conversation (Canada), November 30, 2017Online
URL: https://theconversation.com/a-ray-of-hope-on-world-aids-day-for-canadian-immigrants-84111
It’s Time to Stop Linking ‘Loose Morals’ to Immigrants with HIV
The Conversation (Canada), February 1, 2018Online
URL: https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-stop-linking-loose-morals-to-immigrants-with-hiv-90158
Finally, Some Changes to Health-based Discrimination in Canadian Immigration Law
The Conversation (Canada), May 13, 2018Online
Biography
Laura Bisaillon is an interdisciplinary scholar of health and illness specializing in qualitative methods and the social studies of HIV-related policy in Canadian immigration law. The bulk of her work to date has explored immigration medical inadmissibility decision-making and its consequences. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, and Romania. She is an Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health and Society (Scarborough campus) and the Social Justice Education Department (St. George campus). She teaches and supervises students in English and French.