Sex work within emerging Latino immigrant communities : a typology

Little is known about the organisation and types of sex work emerging urban Latino immigrant communities. To develop a typology of the local sex work industry, we conducted 39 in-depth interviews with foreign-born and US-born Latina female sex workers, Latino immigrant clients, and key informants such as bartenders and brothel managers in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Interview transcripts were coded through an iterative process, and descriptions of sex work were grouped into types. Three types of direct sex work (the street, houses that operate as brothels, and weekend brothels operating out of hotels), three types of indirect sex work (bar workers, opportunistic, and as-needed), and one type that could be either direct or indirect (individual arrangements) were identified. Understanding the local sex industry and its variability has implications for developing and implementing programmes and interventions tailored to the context of sex work type in order to reduce HIV transmission.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

Culture, health & sexuality - 24(2022), 3 vom: 15. März, Seite 374-390

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Grieb, Suzanne M [VerfasserIn]
Flores-Miller, Alejandra [VerfasserIn]
Sherman, Susan G [VerfasserIn]
Page, Kathleen R [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Female sex work
HIV
Immigration
Journal Article
Latino
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

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Date Completed 25.04.2022

Date Revised 02.03.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/13691058.2020.1847324

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM318186985