Detalles del documento

Imprima y guarde

Artículo de periódico

Dancing Across Borders: Exotic Dancers, Trafficking, and Canadian Immigration Policy

Fecha

2003

Autores

Audrey Macklin

Resumen

This article analyzes a Canadian immigration program that authorizes issuance of temporary work visas to ‘exotic dancers.’ In response to public criticism that the government was thereby implicated in the transnational trafficking of women into sexual exploitation, Citizenship and Immigration Canada retained the visa program de jure but eliminated it de facto. Using a legal and discursive analysis that focuses on the production of female labor migrants variously as workers, as criminals and as bearers of human rights, the article argues that the incoherence of Canadian policy can only be rendered intelligible when refracted through these different lenses. The article concludes by considering policy options available to the state in addressing the issue.

Journal title

International Migration Review

Volumen

37

Número

2

Page numbers

464-500

Editor

Center for Migration Studies

Lugar de publicación

New York

Archivos adjuntos

Conexiones

Los sectores económicos

Dancers

Tipos de contenido

Análisis de políticas

Los grupos destinatarios

Legisladores y Los investigadores

Áreas de regulación

Derecho a cambiar de empleador, Derecho a elegir su lugar de residencia, El acceso a la condición de permanente, y Derecho a la libertad

Relevancia geográfica

Canada, Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, Colombia Británica, Otras provincias, Federal, y Nueva Escocia

Esferas de la actividad

Derecho

Idiomas

Inglés