Victimization of Transgender Persons: A Legal Indo-Canadian Perspective

The research proposes to gauge into the lives of the transgender persons in Canada, primarily in one province and applying the law and principles of victimization assess their present situation. In an endeavor to analyze the legal lacunae, the governmental ignorance and inefficient welfare mechanisms, the research expects to conduct an empirical research to be able to codify the data and analyze the same. The researcher(s) expect to look at the abominable human rights violations with the massive violence that they are met with and develop the patterned victimization they fall a trap to. With library research and aid of scholarly writings in the field of criminal law, victimology and human rights, the efforts would be to propose better legal and policy framework to secure their lives of shame and integrate them to the society. With intriguing the criminal laws in force, the researchers would seek to evaluate the impact it has on their lives and what better they deserve. It is hoped that interviews with the transgender community and other stakeholders including police and government officials, the research would concretely apply the same to the community by adhering to the nuances of applied research.

Faculty Supervisor:

Jo-Anne Wemmers

Student:

Partner:

The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Indigenous Affairs; Other

University:

Université de Montréal

Program: