Responding to Human Trafficking : Dispossession, Colonial Violence, and Resistance among Indigenous and Racialized Women / Julie Kaye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaye, Julie, author.

Contributor:

Hunt, Sarah, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human trafficking--Canada.

Human trafficking.

Human trafficking--Law and legislation--Canada.

Human trafficking victims--Canada--Social conditions.

Human trafficking victims.

Human trafficking--Social aspects--Canada.

Human trafficking--Canada--Prevention.

Colonization--Social aspects.

Colonization.

Postcolonialism--Social aspects.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Responding to Human Trafficking is the first book to critically examine responses to the growing issue of human trafficking in Canada. Julie Kaye challenges the separation of trafficking debates into international versus domestic emphases and explores the tangled ways in which anti-trafficking policies reflect and reinforce the settler-colonial nation-building project of Canada. In doing so, Kaye reveals how some anti-trafficking measures create additional harms for the individuals they are trying to protect, particularly migrant and Indigenous women. The author’s critical examination draws upon theories of post- and settler-colonialism, Indigenous feminist thought, and fifty-six interviews with people in counter-trafficking employment across Western Canada. Responding to Human Trafficking provides a new framework for critical analyses of anti-trafficking and other rights-based and anti-violence interventions. Kaye disrupts measures that contribute to the insecurity experienced by trafficked women and individuals affected by anti-trafficking responses by pointing to anti-colonial organizing and the possibilities of reciprocity in relationships of care.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Hunt, Sarah

Preface and Acknowledgments

Acronyms

Introduction

The Production of International and Domestic Anti-Trafficking in Settler- Colonial Canada

Settler Colonialism and the Construction of Anti-Trafficking

Anti-Trafficking in Canada: Negotiating “Domestic” versus “International”

Settler Colonialism, Sex Work, Criminalization, and Human Trafficking

Anti-Trafficking and Border Secularization: Reproducing the Citizen–Subject through Restrictive Measures and Potential Threats

Conclusion

Appendix A: List of Selected Government and Nongovernment Organizations Represented by Participants in One-on-One Interviews

Appendix B: Open-Ended Guide for One-on-One Interviews

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

1-4875-1387-9

1-4875-1386-0

OCLC:

1054879368