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Chapter 7. The Antitrafficking Movement Is Not Abolitionist
How Carceral Feminists and Social Workers Harm Migrant Sex Workers
From: Abolish Social Work (As We Know It)
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This text critiques antitrafficking discourse by exposing contradictions between feminist abolitionist rhetoric and actual reliance on policing and incarceration. It analyzes how colonial legacies and moral panics drive enforcement strategies that criminalize marginalized migrant women rather than protecting them. Finally, it advocates for sex worker-led models prioritizing community autonomy over state control to effectively address exploitation through redistributive approaches instead of prohibition.
Contributors
Elene Lan
Craig Fortieris a Tkaronto/Toronto based scholar and community organizer. They have worked as a social worker in housing, youth organizing, and non-profit funding organizations while also organizing with migrant justice, queer/trans*, anti-capitalist, and Indigenous solidarity movements. Currently, they are an associate professor in Social Development Studies at Renison University College (University of Waterloo) and are the author of Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism.
