ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how anti-trafficking becomes discursively linked to varying forms of marginalization in settler-colonial contexts. The author demonstrates how such linking negates and prevents the necessary systemic transformations to address ongoing structural inequalities associated with colonial gendered violence. The chapter further explores how anti-trafficking in settler-colonial contexts works to reinforce settler-colonial interventions. In particular, the author demonstrates how the ongoing genocide of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Trans, and Two-Spirit in Canada becomes read as synonymous with domestic trafficking, rather than as state-created violence. In turn, it shows how such anti-trafficking approaches uphold settler-colonial systems, such as the police, as benevolent and protective intervenors, while erasing the coloniality of policing in the violence Indigenous and racialized women disproportionately face in settler-colonial contexts.
