Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability

Synopsis

A Rhetorical Examination Of The Spaces, Technologies, And Discourses Of Immigration Restriction During The Peak Period Of North American Immigration In The Early Twentieth Century. Links Anti-immigration Rhetoric To Eugenics--and Argues Racist And Ableist Ideas About Bodily Values Have Never Really Gone Away-- 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. Jay Timothy Dolmage. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 145-161) And Index.