REFUGE

This article assesses the efficacy of Canada's response to the international trafficking. It provides an overview of the global trafficking infrastructure and an analysis of legislative measures taken by the Canadian government.

This article discusses the provisions of the now defunct immigration legislation Bill C-31 tabled in the Canadian House of Commons in April 2000. Many of the core provisions in Bill C-31 were retained in Bill C-11 which created the 2002 Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. The author analyzes the proposed changes in Bill C-31 to various migrant categories including family class, temporary employment, domestic workers, extra-legal migrants, and human smuggling and trafficking. She highlights weaknesses in the proposed changes that make women migrants vulnerable to human rights abuse.

This article reviews the progress of women refugees under the 1951 Refugee Convention. The main argument is that the lack of inclusion of gender within the Refugee Convention is exacerbated by the same gap in the international legal system. The article begins with a review of the Convention itself and the feminist critique of efforts to incorporate women within the refugee definitions. The authors argue that the efforts to include women within the international legal protection regime do not account for many of the practical barriers facing women in making their particular refugee claims.