AGAINST ANTI-TRAFFICKING how it endangers Asian & migrant sex workers and how they are pushing back

with

Elene Lam

Executive Director, Butterfly, the Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network

Co-author of Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice

Sandra Ka Hon Chu

Co-Executive Director at HIV Legal Network

Osgoode LLM 2004

Sandra Ka Hon Chu and Elene Lam will describe the carceral web created by anti-trafficking laws and policies in Canada, and recent cases and test cases which challenge these rules.  We will hear about the work of Butterfly, the Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network mobilizing and advocating as part of Toronto’s ongoing review of municipal bylaws covering body rub parlours, highlighting this often-overlooked regulatory regime and the way it singles out sex workers in punitive and dangerous ways.