Transgender Sex Workers and Sexual Transmigration between Guadalajara and San Francisco

Bibliographic Data

ID4845241
AuthorsC Howe (0000-0002-9361-3812), Susanna Zaraysky, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Lois Lorentzen
Year2008
Volume35
Issue1
Pages31-50
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x07310956
OpenAlexW2016051356
LanguageEN
Citations received24
References cited51

Detailed study of microcommunities of transgender sex workers in Guadalajara and San Francisco reveals a close relationship between migratory motives, economic aspirations, and sexuality. The resonance of both cities as "gay meccas" in their respective nation-states provides a background for the operation of these imagined sites of tolerance in transgender sex workers' lives. Migration is gendered and sexualized, and, despite infra-structural support in San Francisco, these workers find more holistic support "at home

Family medicine · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Human sexuality · Men who have sex with men · Political science · Population · Research methodology · Sex work · Sex workers · Sexual behavior · Sociology · Transgender · Transgender people · Transgender women · Demography · Gender Studies · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology