Right Here is the Gateway”

Mobility, Sex Work Entry and HIV Risk along the Mexico–US Border

Bibliographic Data

ID9954101
AuthorsShira M Goldenberg (0000-0003-1633-9749, University of California San Diego, corresponding author), Jay G Silverman (0000-0001-9520-672X, University of California San Diego), David Engström (San Diego State University), Ietza Bojorquez (0000-0003-1723-7269, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte), I Bojorquez‐Chapela (El Colegio de la Frontera Norte México), Steffanie A Strathdee (0000-0002-7724-691X, University of California San Diego)
Year2013
Volume52
Issue4
Pages26-40
Publication date2013-06-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Migration (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/imig.12104
PMID25346548
PMCIDPMC4207057
OpenAlexW1978077005
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited46

Women comprise an increasing proportion of migrants. Many voluntarily migrate for sex work or practice survival sex, while others may be trafficked for sexual exploitation. To investigate how the context of mobility shapes sex work entry and HIV risk, we conducted in-depth interviews with formerly trafficked women currently engaged in sex work (n=31) in Tijuana, Mexico and their service providers (n=7) in Tijuana and San Diego, USA from 2010-2011. Women's experiences of coerced and deceptive migration, deportation as forced migration, voluntary mobility, and migration to a risk environment illustrate that circumstances driving and resulting from migration shape vulnerability to sex trafficking, voluntary sex work entry, and HIV risk. Findings suggest an urgent need for public health and immigration policies that provide integrated support for deported and/or recently arrived female migrants. Policies to prevent sex trafficking and assist trafficked females must also consider the varying levels of personal agency involved in migration and sex work entry

Agency (philosophy · Computer security · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Demographic economics · Deportation · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Human trafficking · Immigration · Political science · Population · Sex trafficking · Sex work · Sex workers · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Work (physics · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Law · Medicine · Sex work and related issues

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