Disability in Neoliberal Times: HIVPositive Immigrants’ Experiences of the Ontario Disability (original) (raw)

In a neoliberal economy, the state's new role implies a significant reduction of social services and changes to welfare progr work, the experiences of HIV-positive Spanish speaking immigrants as recipients of the Ontario Disability Support Prog Data used for this article are drawn from a larger study conducted by the author on migratory experiences, access to social s sexual behaviors of a sample of 30 Spanish speaking immigrants living with HIV in Toronto. Face to f conducted and analyzed qualitatively following an interpretive phenomenological approach. The results show that participants' experiences are charged with contradictions: on the one hand, the ‘perverse incentives' of the disabi formal reincorporation to work.On the other, limited income support constrains their everyday lives. These contradictions are participants' intersecting dimensions of identity, as HIV individuals' experiences signal the success of neoliberal strategies to discipline the poor, ...