TY - JOUR
T1 - Sex work within emerging Latino immigrant communities
T2 - a typology
AU - Grieb, Suzanne M.
AU - Flores-Miller, Alejandra
AU - Sherman, Susan
AU - Page, Kathleen R
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Female sex work
KW - HIV
KW - immigration
KW - Latino
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U2 - 10.1080/13691058.2020.1847324
DO - 10.1080/13691058.2020.1847324
M3 - Article
C2 - 33252308
AN - SCOPUS:85096911806
JO - Culture, Health and Sexuality
JF - Culture, Health and Sexuality
SN - 1369-1058
ER -