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  • 14 - Destigmatizing Disability in the Law of Immigration Admissions

  • from Part V - Disability, Intersectionality, and Social Movements
  • Edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts, Carmel Shachar, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts, Anita Silvers, San Francisco State University, Michael Ashley Stein, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
    Published online:
    08 April 2020
    Print publication:
    23 April 2020, pp 187-199

  • Summary

    Ever since the federal government began comprehensively regulating immigration in the late nineteenth century, noncitizens with traits associated with disability have faced more legal barriers to immigration than noncitizens without disabilities. Federal laws excluding noncitizens on the basis of vague, health-related criteria have existed since 1882. In the early twentieth century, the US Public Health Service instructed medical inspectors to search for evidence of conditions such as bunions, flat feet, hernia, hysteria, poor eyesight, psychoses of various kinds, spinal curvature, and varicose veins.