This is part of our series on how the pandemic is affecting specific immigrant communities. For Canada’s South Asian communities, the risk is met with an added layer of concern given statistics showing this group has a higher incidence of underlying health conditions that make any infection far more severe.
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Debunking the Racialization of Disease
There is an ever present bias in the historical theories of racialized people being more susceptible to disease, and these theories have been perpetuated by…
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A.P is an engineer who worked in India for many years. He migrated with his wife to Canada twenty years ago. Both are highly educated,…
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