Trafficking in Women and the Feminization of Migration: The Canadian Context

The author discusses Canada's role in the international trafficking of women. She begins by noting that the Canadian government and news media have only recently begun to pay attention to the situation of trafficked women in Canada. She then looks at the UN Trafficking Protocol and examines the international process leading to the protocol. In her discussion of the global structure of trafficking and the Canadian government's response, the author notes that the latter is based largely on law enforcement and stringent immigration policies, resulting in criminalization of migrant sex workers. She argues that a radical revision of the government's approach is necessary in order to provide better protection of women who are vulnerable to trafficking. [Descriptors: Migration - Trafficking, Canada]