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Sexual Solicitation of Latino Male Day Laborers by Other Men
Sexual solicitation of Latino male day laborers by other men. - Dimensions
Skip to search form Skip to main content. Bourgois and H. Bourgois , H. Margarita Loinaz Drawing on data collected through clinical practice and ethnographic fieldwork, this study examines the experience of injury, illness and disability among undocumented Latino day laborers in San Francisco. We demonstrate how constructions of masculine identity organize the experience of embodied social suffering among workers who are rendered vulnerable by the structural conditions of undocumented immigrant status.
To examine the likelihood of Latino day laborers being solicited for sex by other men. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine which day laborers were more likely to be solicited and subsequently to have sex. Thirty-eight percent reported being solicited for sex by another man while seeking work. Those solicited were more likely to live longer in the U. Of those solicited, 9.
They talk about a man who drives by in the afternoons, pretending to need someone to mow the lawn, trim some trees or paint the garage. Bad things can happen very fast. With thousands of undocumented immigrants looking for work every day in Southern California, the practice of hiring day laborers for sex has some health experts concerned about the rapid spread of AIDS in the immigrant community. For the past three years, outreach workers have handed out safe-sex booklets to men at Kester and Oxnard, near one of several Los Angeles-area locations listed on a Web site used by gay and bisexual men in search of sex.