Not Welcome: A Critical Analysis of Ableism in Canadian Immigration Policy from 1869 to 2011

Wong, E. H. S. (2012). Not Welcome A Critical Analysis of Ableism in Canadian Immigration Policy from 1869 to 2011. Critical Disability Discourses/Discours critiques dans le champ du handicap, 4.https://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/article/view/34877 A Foucauldian discourse analysis of Canadian immigration policies and state practices reveals the ableist foundations of the Canadian nation-state. Throughout much of Canadian history, people with disabilities have been excluded through the immigration system. People with disabilities are often times prohibited from obtaining legal status, and even when status is obtained, it is often marked with precariousness. In order to contextualize ableism in the immigration system, I argue that borders are socially constructed, serving to segregate the labour market and to create precarious circumstances for workers in the contexts of capitalism and neoliberalism. These foundations of the Canadian immigration system, which have existed throughout Canada’s history and can be seen in today’s policies, serve to pathologize, playing a major role in the […]

Contrarian Psychiatrist Loren Mosher, 70

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63107-2004Jul19?language=printer His position was based on a view that schizophrenics are tormented souls who needed emotionally nourishing environments in which to recover. He said drugs were almost always unnecessary, except in the event of a violent or suicidal episode. He eventually established small, drug-free treatment facilities that were more akin to homes than hospitals.

[Global Post] Occupy Wall Street-style protest in Indonesia leads to closure of world’s largest gold mine

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/indonesia/111017/occupy-wall-street-protest-indonesia-freeport-gold-copper-mine As the Occupy Wall Street movement spreads like dominoes, resentment toward corporate greed has led to the deaths of four Indonesians and the temporary closure of the American-owned Grasberg mine, one of the world’s largest gold and copper mines, in the remote region of West Papua. Workers at the giant mine, which is owned by the U.S.-based Freeport-McMoran, are on strike for the second month straight. Although the company says it has managed to hire outsourced workers to prevent any significant slowdown in production, that all changed on Monday when the mine halted production for security reasons. Markets, however, have yet to react to the closure. I remember writing a paper on Freeport-McMoran, as well as, the colonization of West Papua in High School. This closure of the mines, albeit temporary, and albeit at the loss of four lives, is a great victory in the context of struggle.