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Political Science General

Invisible Chains

Canada's Underground World Of Human Trafficking

by (author) Benjamin Perrin

Publisher
Penguin Group Canada
Initial publish date
Oct 2010
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780143174790
    Publish Date
    Oct 2011
    List Price
    $22
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780670064533
    Publish Date
    Oct 2010
    List Price
    $32

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Just outside Toronto, a 14-year-old Canadian girl was auctioned on the internet for men to purchase by the hour. A young woman was taken by slave traders from an African war zone to Edmonton to earn greater profits by exploiting her in prostitution. A gang called Wolfpack recruited teenagers in Quebec and sold them for sex to high-profile men in the community.

The global problem of human trafficking is only beginning to be recognized in Canada, even though it has been hidden in plain sight. In Invisible Chains, Benjamin Perrin, an award-winning law professor and policy expert, exposes cases of human trafficking, recording in-depth interviews with people on the front lines—police officers, social workers, and the victims themselves—and bringing to light government records released under access-to-information laws.


 

About the author

Benjamin Perrin is a professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. He has served in the Prime Minister’s Office as in-house legal counsel and lead policy advisor on criminal justice and public safety. He was also a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada. He is the author of Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada’s Opioid Crisis.

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