The Role Of Prostitution In The Downtown Eastside

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The downtown east side is “one of the most marginalized and stigmatized neighborhoods in Canada” (Longstaffe, 2017, pp.231). Longstaffe mentioned how many of the residents are affected with poverty and drug addiction; with more than 60 women from the community missing from 1970 through 2000; many of whom are of indigenous background (2017, pp.231). During those times, many news reports of indigenous women missing or murdered were nothing to note because of how the downtown east side was portrayed; the poor and drug addicted prostitutes were nobodies that walked the streets. As Hugille noted, “media discourse continued to circulate images of street-level sex workers and the space of the Downtown Eastside as morally corrupt and degenerate” (2010,

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