Responding to Human Trafficking – Dispossession, Colonial Violence, and Resista…

University of Toronto Press

This book critically examines responses to human trafficking in Canada, challenging the separation of trafficking debates and exploring how anti-trafficking policies reinforce the settler-colonial nation-building project. It reveals how some measures create additional harms for protected individuals, particularly migrant and Indigenous women. Drawing on post- and settler-colonialism theories, Indigenous feminist thought, and interviews with counter-trafficking professionals, this work offers a new framework for analyzing anti-trafficking and anti-violence interventions. It disrupts measures contributing to insecurity by highlighting anti-colonial organizing and possibilities of reciprocity in care. Key Highlights: * Critical examination of Canadian anti-trafficking policies. * Focus on dispossession, colonial violence, and resistance. * Insights from Indigenous feminist thought and interviews. * Offers a new framework for rights-based interventions. Summary for search: Responding to Human Trafficking, Dispossession, Colonial Violence, Resistance, Indigenous Women, Racialized Women, Julie Kaye, Canada, anti-trafficking, settler-colonialism, feminist thought, sociology, University of Saskatchewan.