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Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice

English

By (author): Chanelle Gallant Elene Lam

A landmark abolitionist primer on migration, sex work, policing, and the anti-trafficking industryand a powerful argument about who is really leading the way toward justice: migrant sex workers themselves.

In this impassioned corrective to decades of misguided, carceral approaches to migration and sex work, long-time organizers Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam deftly expose the harms of criminalization in the name of anti-trafficking and lift up migrant sex workers organizing in the US, Canada, and elsewhere. In doing so, they make the compelling case that the only effective response to the needs of migrant sex workers must be led by migrants in the sex trade, as they fight for rights, safety, and autonomy.

Gallant and Lam illustrate how this movement is taking aim at the root causes of violence and abuse: the white supremacist securitization of borders, the criminalization of both migration and sex work, the patriarchial devaluation of womens labor, and forced displacement due to climate disaster, war, and povertyall fueled by racial capitalism.

An indispensable exploration of the relationship between migration and sex workand the underlying societal conditions they reflectNot Your Rescue Project is a thorough indictment of the anti-trafficking industry as an engine of criminalization and state violence, and an instructive account of the emancipatory politics already being practiced by migrant sex workers in their organizing. Throughout, Gallant and Lam place migrant sex workers at the center of struggles against border imperialism, carceral states, and capitalismdispelling a range of poisonous myths and paving the way for deeper alliances across movements with the shared goal of dismantling and abolishing carceralism in all its forms.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 12 Nov 2024

Product Details
  • Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Nov 2024
  • Publisher: Haymarket Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9798888901250

About Chanelle GallantElene Lam

Elene Lam is an activist artist community organizer educator and human rights defender. She has fought for sex worker migrant gender labor and racial justice for over twenty years She is the founder of Butterfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network) and the cofounder of Migrant Sex Workers Project. She has used diverse and innovative approaches to advocate social justice for migrant sex workers such as leadership building and community mobilization. She holds a masters of law and masters of social work. She is a PhD candidate at McMaster University (School of Social Work) and is studying the harm of the anti-trafficking movement. She was awarded the Constance E. Hamilton Award for Womens Equality by the City of Toronto. Chanelle Gallant is an author activist and movement strategist who has worked in the areas of sexuality and criminalization for over two decades. Her writing has appeared in dozens of publications most recently the New York Times best-seller Pleasure Activism Beyond Survival and Defund Disarm Dismantle and her work has been discussed in the Washington Post the Advocate Esquire Vice and every national media outlet in Canada. Chanelle is on the national board for Showing Up For Racial Justice and has helped to found or support numerous sex worker organizations. She has an MA in sociology and was a Lambda Literary Fellow. Harsha Walia is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013) and Border and Rule (2021). Trained in the law she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice anticapitalist feminist and anti-imperialist movements including No One Is Illegal and Women's Memorial March Committee. Robyn Maynard is an award-winning Black feminist scholar-activist based in Toronto and the author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present and co-author of Rehearsals for Living. She is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and her writings on policing feminism abolition and Black liberation are taught widely across North America and Europe.

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