TY - JOUR
T1 - Sex work within emerging Latino immigrant communities
T2 - a typology
AU - Grieb, Suzanne M.
AU - Flores-Miller, Alejandra
AU - Sherman, Susan G.
AU - Page, Kathleen R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by a faculty developmental grant from the Johns Hopkins University Center for AIDS Research, a US NIH funded program (P30AI094189), which is supported by the following NIH Co-Funding and Participating Institutes and Centers: NIAID, NCI, NICHD, NHLBI, NIDA, NIMH, NIA, FIC, NIGMS, NIDDK and OAR. The content is the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the US NIH. We thank Maria Carrasco, Marina Palma Lima and Monica Miranda for their assistance with this project.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
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 - Latino
KW - immigration
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U2 - 10.1080/13691058.2020.1847324
DO - 10.1080/13691058.2020.1847324
M3 - Article
C2 - 33252308
AN - SCOPUS:85096911806
VL - 24
SP - 374
EP - 390
JO - Culture, Health and Sexuality
JF - Culture, Health and Sexuality
SN - 1369-1058
IS - 3
ER -