Abstract
Response to the ATR debate proposition ‘It is worth undermining the anti-trafficking cause in order to more directly challenge the systems producing everyday abuses within the global economy.’
Highlights
Strategic Redirection through Litigation: Forgoing the anti-trafficking framework to address labour abuses experienced by migrant sex workers
In 2019, SWAN began to consider a constitutional challenge against Canadian immigration law, which currently prohibits temporary residents and migrant workers from engaging in sex work
Mounting a constitutional challenge is a difficult exercise for a small organisation like SWAN, but we have decided that it is the most effective pathway for exposing how ‘crimmigration’[1] enables both labour abuses of migrant sex workers and manufactures vulnerability to human trafficking
Summary
Strategic Redirection through Litigation: Forgoing the anti-trafficking framework to address labour abuses experienced by migrant sex workers In 2019, SWAN began to consider a constitutional challenge against Canadian immigration law, which currently prohibits temporary residents and migrant workers from engaging in sex work. Mounting a constitutional challenge is a difficult exercise for a small organisation like SWAN, but we have decided that it is the most effective pathway for exposing how ‘crimmigration’[1] enables both labour abuses of migrant sex workers and manufactures vulnerability to human trafficking.
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