Opposing
trafficking laws being used to deport women
In February 2001, we organized an emergency picket to protest against police and
immigration raids against 60 immigrant women in Soho, London. The
protest got widespread sympathetic media coverage and as a result the
raids were publicly condemned and their legality challenged by women’s
groups, prominent lawyers, MPs and church people. Many deportations were
stopped by the public outcry and by Legal Action for Women organizing
good legal representation for detained women. Women, denied they were
victims of trafficking and said they are working independently and
earning money to support themselves and their families.
Trafficking
Victim Criminalised and Imprisoned, Social Justice Network, Summer
2005
(pdf) "Anti-trafficking
legislation : Protection or deportation?" Feminist Review
73, 2003
Spanish
translation
of "Protection or deportation?"
in Feminist Review
73,
2003,
LEGISLACIÓN
CONTRA EL TRÁFICO DE MUJERES: ¿PROTECCIÓN O DEPORTACIÓN?
Quote
from an article on trafficking women into prostitution,
The Independent, 17 August 2002
Refugee
Women’s News July/August 2001
Press release for emergency
protest,
Picket: Home Office, police and
academics discuss tightening immigration controls
under the guise of protecting women from
trafficking
6 July 2000
Operation
Pentameter: Deportation
is the real story
Letter to The
Voice 30 May 2006
Response
to Home Office consultation on trafficking
April 2006
International Conference, London, 2004