Videos by Nicole D. McFadyen
In Episode 1 of the Neighbours, Friends, & Family's Healthy Talks Series on Human Trafficking, I ... more In Episode 1 of the Neighbours, Friends, & Family's Healthy Talks Series on Human Trafficking, I speak to youth and educators about the history of human trafficking in Canada, how to move from simple stories to understanding complex realities, and the importance of consent, healthy relationships, and labour rights. This video is designed to provide youth and educators an introduction to understanding human trafficking in Canada and is part of a three-part series.
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Papers by Nicole D. McFadyen
Anthropologica, 2022
The anti-trafficking movement in Canada has grown rapidly since the late 2000s, branding itself a... more The anti-trafficking movement in Canada has grown rapidly since the late 2000s, branding itself as a feminist human rights-based effort to eliminate human trafficking and taken up by the Government of Canada to position itself as a benevolent leader on the international stage. Focusing on the membership of an anti-trafficking coalition in Toronto, Canada, this article explores how the movement creates moral spaces that validate a wide range of anti-trafficking efforts. In unpacking how tensions between members are navigated through the suppression of direct conflict and an ethos of collaboration, it demonstrates how carceral feminist approaches to imagining and eliminating human trafficking continue to remain dominant despite a growth in the efforts of individual members to promote harm reduction and reduce the criminalization of marginalized communities.
Anthropologica, 2022
The anti-trafficking movement in Canada has grown rapidly since the late 2000s, branding itself a... more The anti-trafficking movement in Canada has grown rapidly since the late 2000s, branding itself as a feminist human rights-based effort to eliminate human trafficking and taken up by the Government of Canada to position itself as a benevolent leader on the international stage. Focusing on the membership of an anti-trafficking coalition in Toronto, Canada, this article explores how the movement creates moral spaces that validate a wide range of anti-trafficking efforts. In unpacking how tensions between members are navigated through the suppression of direct conflict and an ethos of collaboration, it demonstrates how carceral feminist approaches to imagining and eliminating human trafficking continue to remain dominant despite a growth in the efforts of individual members to promote harm reduction and reduce the criminalization of marginalized communities.
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Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children, Western University, 2022
The Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children at Western University, t... more The Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children at Western University, together with researchers at the University of Toronto and the Canadian Labour Congress launched a bilingual, national survey on workplace harassment and violence in Fall 2020. Closing in Spring 2021, thousands of workers across Canada completed the survey and a significant number volunteered to participate in in-depth interviews.
Harassment and violence at work remain a major social problem in Canada. The results of this research shed light on the prevalence of different forms of harassment and violence in the workplace, including how workers who are marginalized due to their social location and/or their precarious employment status are uniquely impacted.
Through this research, we have learned more about:
• Workers experiences of sexual harassment and how they intersect with other forms of
harassment and violence in the workplace,
• The actions workers take and their effectiveness,
• Barriers to reporting,
• Forms of retaliation workers experience.
International Transport Workers' Federation, 2021
This report details the impacts of domestic violence (DV) on workplaces in Maharashtra, India and... more This report details the impacts of domestic violence (DV) on workplaces in Maharashtra, India and outlines eight core recommendations for employers to create safer workplaces. Research is based on interviews with 116 male workers who were identified by counselling centres and
workplace management as having perpetrated violence against their intimate partners.
Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children, 2021
Across Canada, there is a need to enhance upstream efforts to end all forms of gender-based viole... more Across Canada, there is a need to enhance upstream efforts to end all forms of gender-based violence. This work needs to include engaging men and boys to develop healthy, equitable, non-violent relationships. Such work includes providing access to services which can mitigate situations where the possibility of violence is developing and help prevent escalation of abuse. It recognizes that part of ending violence against women and girls is working with men to stop abuse and become allies in advancing gender equality.
In Nova Scotia, upstream work aligns with provincial policy supporting and understanding that the well-being and safety of families and communities are dependent upon the availability of resources and supports for all Nova Scotians, including men. Men-specific supports have been an identified as a gap in Nova Scotia which has been highlighted by and during the COVID-19 pandemic. As one response to this gap in services, the Nova Scotia Status of Women and the Department of Community Services with community partners, 211NS and Family Service of Eastern Nova Scotia, initiated a 7-month1 Men’s Intervention and Support Response Pilot Program, later renamed the Men’s Helpline (MHL). The current report summarizes main findings from research conducted during the first seven months of MHL implementation. It integrates and summarizes results of a number of research efforts written up into two interim reports into an over-arching report to: a) summarize findings across the various methods of data collection; b) reflect on successes and challenges; c) highlight considerations relevant to setting up this work in other provinces and territories.
Grounded in ethnographic research on the anti-trafficking and sex worker rights movements in Toro... more Grounded in ethnographic research on the anti-trafficking and sex worker rights movements in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with additional insights gathered from the migrant worker rights movement, and rooted in activist anthropology research methodologies, this dissertation explores social movements, interactions within and between them, and how human rights frameworks are differentially imagined, produced, and interpreted by them. Drawing on the anthropologies of humanitarianism, ethics, and human rights, as well as the interdisciplinary scholarship on social movements and critical feminist anti-trafficking studies, social movements are conceptualized as ethical worlds wherein the individual ethical orientations and ideological beliefs of movement members contribute to the movement's guiding framework, with implications for how tensions and conflict are navigated, the activities of movement members, and discursive and in-person encounters between different social movements. With implications for how human rights are conceptualized, deployed, and engaged with by both privileged and differentially marginalized populations in Canada, this dissertation identifies and unpacks the hierarchies of suffering and compassion that sustain them and presents a valuable theoretical framework for investigating the privileging of some over others. clear that her contributions are now being labelled "emotional outbursts," dismissing the value of her contributions and validating those that sought to interrupt and speak over her. By the end of the event, no one else has verbally objected to the content of any of the presentations or challenged the proposed anti-trafficking methods and no one else has identified themselves as a member of an organization that supports sex workers through human rights advocacy and outreach. Upon reviewing the official summary of the events put together by the event's organizers, I see that, while the questions and comments of many audience members are recorded therein, there is no record of the points Shannon had raised.
Challenging Trafficking in Canada presents information about human trafficking interventions as t... more Challenging Trafficking in Canada presents information about human trafficking interventions as they impact sex workers, Indigenous women, migrants, youth, and other marginalized groups.
Drawing from established research and consultations with organizations around the country, the policy brief analyses how anti-trafficking policies, laws and practices often cause violence and harm to those they are intended to help, especially Indigenous, racialized and migrant sex workers. It offers an alternative to misinformation, exaggerations and unfounded claims that often circulate through the media and public discussion. The brief presents recommendations to guide policymaking and action that will support human rights and justice for all.
Challenging Trafficking in Canada presents information about human trafficking interventions as t... more Challenging Trafficking in Canada presents information about human trafficking interventions as they impact sex workers, Indigenous women, migrants, youth, and other marginalized groups.
Drawing from established research and consultations with organizations around the country, the policy brief analyses how anti-trafficking policies, laws and practices often cause violence and harm to those they are intended to help, especially Indigenous, racialized, and migrant sex workers. It offers an alternative to misinformation, exaggerations, and unfounded claims that often circulate through the media and public discussion. The brief presents recommendations to guide policy making and action that will support human rights and justice for all.
Blog Posts by Nicole D. McFadyen
On June 2nd, 1996, sixteen months after she had filed a sexual harassment complaint against him, ... more On June 2nd, 1996, sixteen months after she had filed a sexual harassment complaint against him, Theresa Vince was murdered at work by her supervisor. On November 12th, 2005, Nurse Lori Dupont was murdered by a co-worker whom she had previously had an intimate relationship with. Despite these deaths occurring at their respective workplaces, in both cases a coroner’s inquest only occurred because of the lobbying efforts of families, women’s advocates, and organized Labour, academics, survivors, and community groups. The findings from the inquest into Dupont’s murder echoed those of Vince’s: These murders were preventable and meaningful, multi-sectoral health and safety law changes remain desperately needed.
Conference Presentations by Nicole D. McFadyen
This paper explores the tangible potential of engaged, activist research methodologies and practi... more This paper explores the tangible potential of engaged, activist research methodologies and practices of critical allyship in the sex worker rights and anti-trafficking movements in Toronto, Canada.
This paper explores how the anti-trafficking movement has forged powerful solidarities among dive... more This paper explores how the anti-trafficking movement has forged powerful solidarities among diverse organizations in the name of helping those that they purport are the most marginalized in Canada, and in doing so paradoxically aggravate the marginalization of populations that have a history of being stigmatized and discriminated against: sex workers and temporary migrant workers. At the same time, those excluded and negatively impacted by the anti-trafficking movement in Toronto actively respond to and resist this exclusion by forming their own shifting coalitions, working to produce their own education materials, organizing protests, rallies, and panels, and fighting to support community members. As these marginalized coalitions have solidified, the anti-trafficking movement has begun to see the fractioning of its own privileged solidarities, raising questions of the fragility of solidarities, the power of resistance, and the ripples of exclusion as they are experienced at different levels of Canada's social hierarchy.
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Videos by Nicole D. McFadyen
Neighbours, Friends, and Family's is part of the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children, Western University, London, Ontario.
To share or watch this video and others in the series on YouTube, follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwlVniBhlL0&t=17s
More information about the series is available here: http://neighboursfriendsandfamilies.ca/resources/talks/human_trafficking_series.html
Papers by Nicole D. McFadyen
Harassment and violence at work remain a major social problem in Canada. The results of this research shed light on the prevalence of different forms of harassment and violence in the workplace, including how workers who are marginalized due to their social location and/or their precarious employment status are uniquely impacted.
Through this research, we have learned more about:
• Workers experiences of sexual harassment and how they intersect with other forms of
harassment and violence in the workplace,
• The actions workers take and their effectiveness,
• Barriers to reporting,
• Forms of retaliation workers experience.
workplace management as having perpetrated violence against their intimate partners.
In Nova Scotia, upstream work aligns with provincial policy supporting and understanding that the well-being and safety of families and communities are dependent upon the availability of resources and supports for all Nova Scotians, including men. Men-specific supports have been an identified as a gap in Nova Scotia which has been highlighted by and during the COVID-19 pandemic. As one response to this gap in services, the Nova Scotia Status of Women and the Department of Community Services with community partners, 211NS and Family Service of Eastern Nova Scotia, initiated a 7-month1 Men’s Intervention and Support Response Pilot Program, later renamed the Men’s Helpline (MHL). The current report summarizes main findings from research conducted during the first seven months of MHL implementation. It integrates and summarizes results of a number of research efforts written up into two interim reports into an over-arching report to: a) summarize findings across the various methods of data collection; b) reflect on successes and challenges; c) highlight considerations relevant to setting up this work in other provinces and territories.
Drawing from established research and consultations with organizations around the country, the policy brief analyses how anti-trafficking policies, laws and practices often cause violence and harm to those they are intended to help, especially Indigenous, racialized and migrant sex workers. It offers an alternative to misinformation, exaggerations and unfounded claims that often circulate through the media and public discussion. The brief presents recommendations to guide policymaking and action that will support human rights and justice for all.
Drawing from established research and consultations with organizations around the country, the policy brief analyses how anti-trafficking policies, laws and practices often cause violence and harm to those they are intended to help, especially Indigenous, racialized, and migrant sex workers. It offers an alternative to misinformation, exaggerations, and unfounded claims that often circulate through the media and public discussion. The brief presents recommendations to guide policy making and action that will support human rights and justice for all.
Blog Posts by Nicole D. McFadyen
Conference Presentations by Nicole D. McFadyen