Protection or police harassment? Impacts of punitive policing, discrimination, and racial profiling under end-demand laws among im/migrant sex workers in Metro Vancouver

• Main Authors: Bronwyn McBride (Author), Shira M. Goldenberg (Author), Alka Murphy (Author), Sherry Wu (Author), Minshu Mo (Author), Kate Shannon (Author), Andrea Krüsi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In 2014, Canada implemented end-demand sex work legislation which leaves the sale of sex under some circumstances legal. However, immigration policies based on discourses positioning sex work as exploitation and migration as trafficking continue to criminalize many im/migrant sex workers. Despite co...