Folland, Johanna (Author)
Eley, Geoff (Author)
University of Michigan
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Language: English
In 1987, at the height of the AIDS crisis, the United States issued its infamous “HIV travel ban,” barring HIV-positive foreigners from entering the country. Later that same year, state-socialist East Germany followed suit and began deporting HIV-positive African students and guest workers. Western scholars, often treating the American case as an outlier, have always explained the East German HIV travel ban in terms of rampant Soviet Bloc authoritarianism – in other words, as just another example of state socialism showing its true (illiberal) colors and receding into isolation behind the “Iron Curtain.” This dissertation demonstrates the opposite. I argue that this policy actually grew out of enthusiastic East German efforts to integrate with an emerging Western-led international health consensus on AIDS – a consensus that spoke out against anti-immigrant responses to the epidemic but sometimes carried with it hidden racial hierarchies and normative assumptions about the proper relationship between healthcare and the state. This project is therefore an investigation of (1.) the liberalization and globalization of socialist health systems in the late Cold War era, as well as (2.) the consolidation of a global response to HIV/AIDS that has long privileged white, “First World” lives over the lives of people in and from the Global South.
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