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by John Bonnar
October 21, 2009

The number of migrants in all sectors of the local sex industry in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) has dramatically increased in the last ten years, according to a recent study released by the Wellesley Institute.

In their report, Building Partnerships for Service Provision to Migrant Sex Workers [2], Natalya Timoshkina and Lynn McDonald found that migrant sex workers are one of the most hard-to-reach, underserved and poorly studied populations.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) estimates that between 600 and 800 foreign women and girls are trafficked into the Canadian sex industry each year, but estimates from other sources are much higher.