SWAN Vancouver conducted a broad community consultation to record women’s experiences about how the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR), which ban temporary residents from doing...
Barriers to Justice for Migrant and Immigrant Sex Workers
A Community-Led Research Project SWAN's research project to explore and understand the barriers to justice for migrant and immigrant sex workers in Metro Vancouver. The project sought to learn how...
Chinese Sex Workers in Toronto & Vancouver
SWAN collaborated with Zi Teng in Hong Kong and Agincourt Community Services Association (ACSA) in Toronto, Canada to better understand why Chinese women were leaving China and Hong Kong to work as sex workers in other countries.
Do Evidence-Based Approaches Alienate Canadian Anti-Trafficking Funders?
SWAN analyzes how the adoption of an anti-prostitution analysis of trafficking by funders will likely result in punitive consequences for immigrant sex workers.