Abstracts
Abstract
The anti-trafficking movement in Canada has grown rapidly since the late 2000s, branding itself as a feminist human rights-based effort to eliminate human trafficking and taken up by the Government of Canada to position itself as a benevolent leader on the international stage. Focusing on the membership of an anti-trafficking coalition in Toronto, Canada, this article explores how the movement creates moral spaces that validate a wide range of anti-trafficking efforts. In unpacking how tensions between members are navigated through the suppression of direct conflict and an ethos of collaboration, it demonstrates how carceral feminist approaches to imagining and eliminating human trafficking continue to remain dominant despite a growth in the efforts of individual members to promote harm reduction and reduce the criminalization of marginalized communities.
Keywords:
- human trafficking,
- sex work,
- human rights,
- non-governmental organizations,
- Canada
Résumé
Le mouvement de lutte contre la traite des êtres humains au Canada a connu une croissance rapide depuis la fin des années 2000, se présentant comme un effort féministe fondé sur les droits de l’homme pour éliminer la traite des êtres humains et repris par le gouvernement du Canada pour se positionner comme un leader bienveillant sur la scène internationale. En se concentrant sur les membres d’une coalition anti-trafic d’êtres humains à Toronto, Canada, cet article explore comment le mouvement crée des espaces moraux qui valident un large éventail d’efforts anti-trafic. En exposant la manière dont les tensions entre les membres sont gérées par la suppression des conflits directs et une éthique de collaboration, il démontre comment les approches féministes carcérales visant à imaginer et à éliminer la traite des êtres humains restent dominantes malgré une augmentation des efforts des membres individuels pour promouvoir la réduction des dommages et réduire la criminalisation des communautés marginalisées.
Mots-clés :
- Trafic humain,
- travail du sex,
- droits humains,
- organisations non-gouvernementales,
- Canada
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