Laura Bisaillon

I am a social scientist with affiliation at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health & Society and the Social Justice Education Department at the University of Toronto. Through my research, I am concerned about structurally arising inequalities. My research agenda contributes to scholarship on resistance to the state, social justice, and the politics of knowledge production. I draw from feminist praxis, collective action, and engaged pedagogy. I explore bureaucratic practices about people experiencing marginality, asking: how are these forms of knowledge produced and sustained? I use institutional ethnography and listen ‘organizationally’ for how policy, law and regulation manifest. I have worked in Canada, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East. I am working to complete my monograph, Disease, Disability and Decision-making: HIV and Unexplored Intersections Between Medicine and the Law in the Canadian Immigration System. I serve on the editorial board of Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. Je suis bilingue en français et anglais.