Katrin Roots is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has researched Canada’s anti-trafficking efforts for over a decade and is the author of The Domestication of Human Trafficking: Law Policing and Prosecution in Canada. She is also the co-author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on trafficking law, enforcement and policing technologies and the co-editor (with Mariful Alam and Patrick Dwyer) of Violence, Imagination and Resistance: Socio-Legal Interrogations of Power.
Ann De Shalit is an assistant professor in the Department of Gender and Social Justice at Trent University. Her primary research uses labour and migrant justice approaches to expose the broadly defined impacts of anti-trafficking policy, discourse and practice. She has published peer-reviewed articles, community reports and a co-edited special journal issue on trafficking and has presented at numerous conferences and government consultations at all levels on the topic. She has taught an upper-year undergraduate course on human trafficking at York and Ontario Tech Universities. She has also been involved in community-based research, campaigns and publications in the areas of migration, sex work, precarious labour, prison health and harm reduction, housing, social work and police collaborations, and political advocacy by charities.
Emily van der Meulen is a professor in the Department of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University. She conducts research in the areas of sex work and human trafficking, prison and community-based harm reduction and gendered and transnational surveillance. She is co-editor of six books, including Red Light Labour: Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance (with Elya M. Durisin and Chris Bruckert), Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories (with Robert Heynen) and Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada (with Kelly Fritsch and Jeffrey Monaghan).

Introduction:
: Understanding Human Trafficking: An Examination of Discourses, Laws, Policing and Migrant Labour (Katrin Roots, Ann De Shalit and Emily van der Meulen)
Section One: Trafficking Discourses and Representations:
: Beyond Carceral Humanitarianism: Anti-Blackness as the Structure of Anti-Trafficking Discourse (Lyndsey P. Beutin)
: Emergence and Convergence of the Pimp and Trafficker in Media Discourse: Creating a New Super Folk Devil (Stacey Hannem and Chris Bruckert)
: A Narrative on Anti-Trafficking Discourse and Advocacy in Newfoundland (Laura Winters)
Section Two: Trafficking Law and Prosecutions:
: Prosecuting Trafficking in Persons Offences: Problems and Pitfalls in the Post-PCEPA Era (Tamara O’Doherty and Hayli Millar)
: Human Trafficking Law and Policy: Exacerbating Racial and Gendered Violence in Ontario (Sandra Ka Hon Chu and Robyn Maynard)
: Targeting Asian Massage Parlours in the Name of Anti-Trafficking: Experiences of Asian Women in Toronto (Elene Lam)
: A Narrative on Defending People Charged with Human Trafficking (Mash Frouhar)
: A Narrative on Being Charged with Human Trafficking (Anonymous)
Section Three: Trafficking Policing and Surveillance:
: Anti-Trafficking and Data-Driven Policing: A Whole-of-Society Strategy (Robert Heynen)
: Anti-Trafficking Policing in Vancouver: The Denial of Crimes Against Asian Sex Workers (Alison Clancey and Julie Ham)
: Challenging Notions of Benevolence and Protection: Settler Colonial Anti-Trafficking Policing in Manitoba (Julie Kaye and Cerah Dubé)
: A Narrative on Being an Indigenous and Trans Sex Worker in Winnipeg (Victoria Erin Flett)
Section Four: Trafficking and Migrant Labour Exploitation:
: Discretionary Decisions in Immigration: Accessing Temporary Resident Permits as a Victim of Trafficking (Jessica Templeman)
: Redefining “Exploitation”: Reconciling Human Trafficking Provisions and with Canada’s Migrant Farm Work ProgramHuman Trafficking Provisions and Seasonal Agricultural Work (Shane Martínez)
: A Narrative on Organizing for Migrant Farm Worker Justice (Chris Ramsaroop)
Introduction:
: Understanding Human Trafficking: An Examination of Discourses, Laws, Policing and Migrant Labour (Katrin Roots, Ann De Shalit and Emily van der Meulen)
Section One: Trafficking Discourses and Representations:
: Beyond Carceral Humanitarianism: Anti-Blackness as the Structure of Anti-Trafficking Discourse (Lyndsey P. Beutin)
: Emergence and Convergence of the Pimp and Trafficker in Media Discourse: Creating a New Super Folk Devil (Stacey Hannem and Chris Bruckert)
: A Narrative on Anti-Trafficking Discourse and Advocacy in Newfoundland (Laura Winters)
Section Two: Trafficking Law and Prosecutions:
: Prosecuting Trafficking in Persons Offences: Problems and Pitfalls in the Post-PCEPA Era (Tamara O’Doherty and Hayli Millar)
: Human Trafficking Law and Policy: Exacerbating Racial and Gendered Violence in Ontario (Sandra Ka Hon Chu and Robyn Maynard)
: Targeting Asian Massage Parlours in the Name of Anti-Trafficking: Experiences of Asian Women in Toronto (Elene Lam)
: A Narrative on Defending People Charged with Human Trafficking (Mash Frouhar)
: A Narrative on Being Charged with Human Trafficking (Anonymous)
Section Three: Trafficking Policing and Surveillance:
: Anti-Trafficking and Data-Driven Policing: A Whole-of-Society Strategy (Robert Heynen)
: Anti-Trafficking Policing in Vancouver: The Denial of Crimes Against Asian Sex Workers (Alison Clancey and Julie Ham)
: Challenging Notions of Benevolence and Protection: Settler Colonial Anti-Trafficking Policing in Manitoba (Julie Kaye and Cerah Dubé)
: A Narrative on Being an Indigenous and Trans Sex Worker in Winnipeg (Victoria Erin Flett)
Section Four: Trafficking and Migrant Labour Exploitation:
: Discretionary Decisions in Immigration: Accessing Temporary Resident Permits as a Victim of Trafficking (Jessica Templeman)
: Redefining “Exploitation”: Reconciling Human Trafficking Provisions and with Canada’s Migrant Farm Work ProgramHuman Trafficking Provisions and Seasonal Agricultural Work (Shane Martínez)
: A Narrative on Organizing for Migrant Farm Worker Justice (Chris Ramsaroop)