Not Your Rescue Project

Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice

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Pub Date Nov 12 2024 | Archive Date Not set

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A landmark abolitionist primer on migration, sex work, policing, and the “anti-trafficking industry”—and a powerful argument about who is really leading the way toward justice: migrant sex workers themselves.

In this impassioned corrective to decades of misguided, carceral approaches to migration and sex work, long-time organizers Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam deftly expose the harms of criminalization in the name of “anti-trafficking” and lift up migrant sex workers’ organizing in the US, Canada, and elsewhere. In doing so, they make the compelling case that the only effective response to the needs of migrant sex workers must be led by migrants in the sex trade, as they fight for rights, safety, and autonomy.

Gallant and Lam illustrate how this movement is taking aim at the root causes of violence and abuse: the white supremacist securitization of borders, the criminalization of both migration and sex work, the patriarchial devaluation of women’s labor, and forced displacement due to climate disaster, war, and poverty—all fueled by racial capitalism.

An indispensable exploration of the relationship between migration and sex work—and the underlying societal conditions they reflect—Not Your Rescue Project is a thorough indictment of the anti-trafficking industry as an engine of criminalization and state violence, and an instructive account of the emancipatory politics already being practiced by migrant sex workers in their organizing. Throughout, Gallant and Lam place migrant sex workers at the center of struggles against border imperialism, carceral states, and capitalism—dispelling a range of poisonous myths and paving the way for deeper alliances across movements with the shared goal of dismantling and abolishing carceralism in all its forms.

A landmark abolitionist primer on migration, sex work, policing, and the “anti-trafficking industry”—and a powerful argument about who is really leading the way toward justice: migrant sex workers...


Advance Praise

“When butterflies get together to extract minerals from a shallow patch of muddy water, it is called a ‘puddle club.’ Not Your Rescue Project opens our eyes to the powerful human ‘puddle clubs’ all around us, beating their wings for justice and somehow turning the mud slung at them into nourishment. This book makes joining them irresistible.” 
—Sophie Lewis, author of Enemy Feminisms and Abolish the Family

"Intellectually trenchant, emotionally affecting, and deeply needed, Not Your Rescue Project is essential reading for anyone involved in social justice, labor activism, human rights, migrant justice, and sex education.”
—Kai Cheng Thom, author of I Hope We Choose Love

“Not Your Rescue Project is indeed not only a call for solidarity but a warning for the broader left. The expansion of carceral surveillance, law enforcement, and immigration powers advanced under the mantle of rescue deeply endanger migrant sex workers and will impact us all.”
—Robyn Maynard, from the afterword

“When butterflies get together to extract minerals from a shallow patch of muddy water, it is called a ‘puddle club.’ Not Your Rescue Project opens our eyes to the powerful human ‘puddle clubs’ all...


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ISBN 9798888900864
PRICE $21.95 (USD)
PAGES 320

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