Citizenship status, racism, gender and violence: Aboriginal women in Canada, international sex trade – finding the links and associations

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

9 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

04/29/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

Social sciences

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Summary :

Introduction
The discussion on rights and violence against women
The way that citizenship laws are framed in Canada
That Native women experiencing higher levels of violence
Neo-colonialism or trans-national capital globalization
Forms of domination
Article by Denise Brennan on Dominican sex workers
The sense of the problematic nature of violence
The systems of justice in our society
The violence inherent in prostitution
The links between violence and oppression
References

Abstract

In the forward to Andrea Smith's (2005) book Conquest. Sexual violence and American Indian Genocide, Winona LaDuke, writing about Native women's experience in Minnesota, writes that Native women in the state, which borders Manitoba, have a ten-times higher chance of dying a violent death than a white woman in the same region. She also notes that "the National Guard will not spend hours of manpower scouring for your missing body." (LaDuke: xvii) She compares this to the expensive $150,000 search for a blond woman, who went missing at the Minnesota/North Dakota border, attesting the lack of similar resources under any circumstances expended in search of a missing Native woman. This is not only true of Minnesota, North Dakota or any other part of the U.S., but also the truth of experience of Native women across canada. This paper will try to explain and evaluate, and place in a personal social-work context, why this would be true. As well it will compare the experience of Native women and violence, to the violence faced by immigrant women who work in the sex trade in canada, or the role of canada as a state of boundaries and policies of exclusion, within a climate of globalization and heightened spread of an international underground of sex trafficking that accompanies globalization