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A 2016 Public Safety report released statistics that indicate that, while Indigenous women only make up 4% of the Canadian population, they roughly make up 50% of trafficking victims. Women under the age of 18 make up approximately a quarter of the victims of human trafficking.
Aug 3, 2020 · This article, written by two Indigenous female identifying social work practitioners, academics, and researchers with lived experience of violence, is based on a preliminary research project with survivors of trafficking and those who offer them support services.
- Brianna Olson-Pitawanakwat, Cyndy Baskin
- 2021
Sep 27, 2023 · The Centre has compiled a list of supports and services to assist Indigenous peoples who may have been trafficked, focusing on women, girls, and gender-diverse people. We have also included resources for those who may want support ahead of Truth and Reconciliation Day.
Indigenous women are disproportionality affected by racialized violence in Canada through exposure to both historic and ongoing gendered discrimination. Canada’s colonial legacy has forced Indigenous women and girls into dangerous and precarious social and economic conditions, which in turn has made them more vulnerable to
- Lured and Recruited
- Move to Toronto
- Connection to MMIWG
One evening when she was 12, some of the older girls in the group home told Perrier they were going to go make some money. "I asked how, and they told me to 'just laugh.'" The girls sat around an old man and "manually stimulated" him. "The more you laughed, the more $100 bills were left under the Kleenex box," she said. "For a little girl, that's a...
Her second exploiter was a pimp she met at the Toronto airport. In a similar fashion to the madam, the pimp groomed Perrier, sometimes acting like a boyfriend. When they met, she told him she was going to Halifax, which is where he said he was from. They met up again there and when he asked Perrier to come to Toronto, she did. The pimp would have P...
Addressing the sexual exploitation of Indigenous women and girls needs to be seen as a national priority, she says, as well as the connection between sexual exploitation and murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls. In the decade that she was exploited, Perrier says she was careful not to say she was an Indigenous woman because she says they...
Human trafficking of Indigenous women and girls in Canada is a widespread issue across the country. Decades of state interventions have done little to stop the trafficking and sexual exploitation of Indigenous peoples and in some cases have contributed to the problem.
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Jun 20, 2022 · The trafficking of Indigenous women, girls, and gender-diverse peoples has been normalized in Canada through historical processes that have been transformed over time, but which persist as ubiquitous expressions of colonial violence.
