Idil Atak – författare

Canada's Anti–Human Trafficking Measures critically assesses the scope and impact of federal and provincial anti–human trafficking measures over the past twenty years.

In 2000, the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons established an international framework for anti–human trafficking action. As a party to the protocol, Canada implemented an array of legislative and policy measures, including action plans, awareness campaigns, personnel training, and other anti–human trafficking initiatives.

A diverse group of contributors collaborates to critically examine these measures from multidisciplinary perspectives. They consistently demonstrate that a focus on criminalization overshadows the structural drivers of exploitation, including colonialism and discriminatory immigration policies. Prevailing implementation methods often leave survivors in precarious situations.

Canada's Anti–Human Trafficking Measures advances a transformative approach grounded in human rights and survivor empowerment. It calls for greater transparency, community-led initiatives, and comprehensive models to address the complexities of human trafficking.

This volume explores the digitization, privatization, and spatial displacement of border security and the effects these have on political accountability and migrant rights.

The governance of security and migration is unfolding in new political spaces. Cooperation and competition among immigration officials, border guards, transnational security corporations, IT companies, local police, and international organizations has decoupled migration governance from national political structures. The chapters in the volume examine how these dynamics affect the deployment and constraint of sovereign power in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the EU. Contributors trace this process from the disciplinary perspectives of law, political science, sociology, criminology, and geography. Part I of the book explores the reconfiguration of security and migration governance through historical processes of privatization, digitization, and the rescaling of border control technologies to local and global spaces. Part II explores how migrant rights actors have responded by rescaling resistance to global and local levels.

This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, global governance, migration studies, and international relations.