Invisible Chains
Canada's Underground World Of Human Trafficking
1st Edition
Published on 5. October 2010
320 pages
978-0-14-317897-2 (ISBN)
Description
Just outside Toronto, a 14-year-old Canadian girl was auctioned on the internet for men to purchase by the hour. A young woman was taken by slave traders from an African war zone to Edmonton to earn greater profits by exploiting her in prostitution. A gang called Wolfpack recruited teenagers in Quebec and sold them for sex to high-profile men in the community.
The global problem of human trafficking is only beginning to be recognized in Canada, even though it has been hidden in plain sight. In Invisible Chains, Benjamin Perrin, an award-winning law professor and policy expert, exposes cases of human trafficking, recording in-depth interviews with people on the front lines-police officers, social workers, and the victims themselves-and bringing to light government records released under access-to-information laws.
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Person
BENJAMIN PERRIN is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law and a leading expert on human trafficking. As senior policy adviser to the minister of citizenship and immigration, and a witness before several parliamentary committees, he has advised the federal government on this issue. He has also worked overseas with victims and assisted in the prosecution of child sex offenders as executive director of The Future Group, a non-governmental organization that he founded in 2000 to combat human trafficking.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The Renaissance of Slavery
- 2 Travelling Sex Offenders Fuelling Demand Abroad
- 3 International Trafficking to Canada
- 4 Across the Undefended Border
- 5 Buying Local-Canadian Victims
- 6 The New Technology of Trafficking
- 7 Breaking the Bonds That Enslave Victims
- 8 First Nations, Last Chance
- 9 Falling Through the Cracks
- 10 Homegrown Human Traffickers
- 11 Justice Too Often Denied
- 12 Ending Impunity, Offering Hope
- 13 From Average Joes to Average Johns
- 14 Doing the Dirty Work: Forced Labour
- 15 Battling Trafficking Across Canada
- 16 Dealing with Trafficking on a Global Basis
- 17 Building a New Underground Railroad
- Appendix: Organizations Combatting Human Trafficking
- Methodology
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
