When Ebola Came to Canada: Race and the Making of the Respectable Body

Authors

  • Carmela Murdocca Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Keywords:

Ebola virus, Mass media, Immigration

Abstract

This paper examines the way in which the recent Ebola media spectacle in Canada relied upon spatial delineations of race and degeneracy. I argue that the representation of immigrants as vectors of disease is a useful and coercive tool in the project of justifying immigration reform and the state control of racial bodies.

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Published

2003-04-01

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 2 (2003): Health Panic and Women's Health

Section

Original Research

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