Is it trafficking?

Examining gender-based violence among women who do informal, precarious, non-standard work.

“Is it trafficking? Examining gender-based violence among women who do informal, precarious, non-standard work” is a three-year research project GAATW Canada is conducting in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the Yukon.

This project will document the experiences of racialized women with workplace gender-based violence in order to inform policy, services, and prevention strategies.

It will also assess if and/or the extent to which Canada’s anti-trafficking framework addresses workplace gender-based violence perpetrated against racialized women.

While current intersectional approaches to gender-based violence services take into account race, ethnicity, gender, ability, age and other factors, few intersectional approaches consider occupation.

The work that many racialized women do is systemically unrecognized and undervalued and is the site of labour abuses, violence, exploitation, or trafficking.

Increased knowledge about work-related gender-based violence will inform and help improve the capacity of organizations and institutions at all levels in regard to prevention, policy, advocacy and further research in this area.