Book review: Julie Kaye, Responding to Human Trafficking: Dispossession, Colonial Violence, and Resistance among Indigenous and Racialized Women

Abstract

(first paragraph) Julie Kaye’s Responding to Human Trafficking: Dispossession, Colonial Violence, and Resistance among Indigenous and Racialized Women provides an essential re-thinking of the analytical frameworks that researchers, policymakers and practitioners have relied on to understand human trafficking and anti-trafficking policies. The development of anti-trafficking policies and practices have too often grounded migration management in a criminal justice framework, often to the detriment of migrants and sex workers, and those who fall into both categories. Challenging this approach, an established consensus has emerged among critical anti-trafficking scholars regarding the adverse consequences that anti-trafficking policies have produced for particular groups, and the parallels between anti-trafficking measures and the criminalization of marginalized populations. Kaye’s book makes a valuable contribution to this literature.