Elene Lam is an activist, artist, community organizer, educator, and human rights defender. She has fought for sex worker, migrant, gender, labor, and racial justice for over twenty years. She is the founder of Butterfly: Asian and Migrant Sex Worker Support Network and the cofounder of Migrant Sex Workers Project. She has used diverse and innovative approaches to advocate social justice for migrant sex workers, such as leadership building and community mobilization. She holds a master's of law and master's of social work. She is a PhD candidate at McMaster University (School of Social Work) and is studying the harm of the anti-trafficking movement. She was awarded the Constance E. Hamilton Award for Women's Equality by the City of Toronto.
Chanelle Gallant is the eldest daughter of a poor single mother. She has been building movements that can protect the lives and liberation of poor and working class women and queers for 25 years. Chanelle is a movement writer, organizer, strategist and consultant whose writing has appeared in over a dozen books and publications. She co-founded the Migrant Sex Workers Project, SURJ-Toronto and has provided training and advocacy on sex work and racial justice, from city hall to the United Nations. Chanelle sits on the national board for Showing Up for Racial Justice and Catalyst Project and has helped to move millions into organizing through donor advising and grassroots fundraising. She holds an MA in Sociology and was a Lambda Literary Fellow. Find her at [...].
Harsha Walia is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013) and Border and Rule (2021). Trained in the law, she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anticapitalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One Is Illegal and Women's Memorial March Committee.
Robyn Maynard is an award-winning Black feminist scholar-activist based in Toronto and the author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present and co-author of Rehearsals for Living. She is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and her writings on policing, feminism, abolition, and Black liberation are taught widely across North America and Europe.

Foreword by Harsha Walia

Part I: Migrant Sex Worker Realities

Introduction: A Radical Reframe of Sex Work, Migration and Justice

Chapter 1 Who Are Migrant Sex Workers?

Interludes I

Chapter 2 Why Migrants Sell Sex

Interludes II

Chapter 3 Migrant Sex Workers and State Violence

Part II: Migrant Sex Workers and State Violence-Introducing the Anti-trafficking Industry

Chapter 4 "Red Flags": How Migrant Sex Workers Are Constructed as "Modern Slaves"

Interludes III

Chapter 5 "Consent is Not Relevant" Criminalizing Migrant Sex Workers

Interlude IV

Chapter 6 The Police Are the Predators

Part III: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Power

Chapter 7 The Left and Migrant Sex Workers

Chapter 8 What is Migrant Sex Worker Justice?

Chapter 9 The Butterfly Effect: Solidarity and the World We Dream Of

Afterword by Robyn Maynard

Further Reading

Acknowledgements

Notes