Race, Space, and Prostitution: The Making of Settler Colonial Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robyn Bourgeois
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 30, no. 3, 2018, pp. 371-397
Description
Argues that prostitution has played a fundamental role in securing the necessary domination over Indigenous peoples and land in the making of the Canadian nation-state. Focuses on four examples: early settlement in British Columbia; the Indian Act; the Pass System; and Vancouver's missing women.