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标题：The Invisible Women: Migrant and Immigrant Sex Workers and Law Reform in Canada
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作者：Jamie Chai Yun Liew
期刊名称：Studies in Social Justice
印刷版ISSN：1911-4788
出版年度：2020
卷号：2020
期号：14
页码：90-116
DOI：10.26522/ssj.v2020i14.2144
出版社：Centre for Studies in Social Justice, University of Windsor
摘要：This article examines how migrant and immigrant sex workers have been rendered invisible before the courts and parliament in the reform of laws regarding sex work in Canada. A discourse analysis of the expansive legal record in the Bedford case and the transcripts of Parliamentary debates and testimony before Standing Committees confirm the lack of nuanced discussion on how criminal law reform could impact migrant and immigrant sex workers. As such, while the case of Bedford and the resulting change in the law made by Parliament have been celebrated as a win for some sex workers as an acknowledgment, recognition and judicial validation of experiences by legal institutions of sex workers, a sub-group of women – migrant and immigrant sex workers – remain in the shadows. This article examines how law excludes migrant and immigrant sex workers; it is a starting point for research on how migrant and immigrant sex workers may participate in future legal reform.
其他关键词：migrant; immigration; race; sex worker; prostitution; immigrant; law; Bedford