How does the colonial history of this land known as Canada shape the way Indigenous peoples and communities encounter and experience human trafficking?
How does anti-human trafficking work replicate and/or reinforce colonial systems of oppression?
How should the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry’s Calls to Justice inform anti-human trafficking work?
This year’s Do No Harm series explores these and other questions and considers how to improve anti-human trafficking work by using a decolonial, anti-oppressive, and intersectional lens.
*Do No Harm exists to bring forward voices of frontline workers, survivors, and other experts to help uncover blind spots and tensions within anti-human trafficking work that result in harm against marginalized groups. Presenters speak directly to the harm committed in anti-human trafficking work and suggest new practices that centre the voices and experiences of those most affected.*
Settler Colonialism and Human Trafficking with Dr. Shelagh Roxburgh
This webinar applies political theory to the problem of human trafficking in Canada, with a particular focus on the structure of settler colonialism. The presentation begins with a theoretical discussion of colonialism and the role of sexualized violence in the colony before exploring the limitations of contemporary human trafficking discourses from an anti-colonial perspective.