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Migration And Sexual Health Among Gay Latino Migrants To Canada, Barry D. Adam Oct 2017

Migration And Sexual Health Among Gay Latino Migrants To Canada, Barry D. Adam

Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology Publications

This paper enquires into the nexus of migration with sexual health among gay Latino migrants in Canada. Interviews with 25 Spanish-speaking interviewees are examined in light of models developed from studies of Latinos in the United States. Canadian immigration policy appears to result in a somewhat different selection of immigrants compared to the United States. Migrants come from a wide range of national and regional backgrounds intersected by race, generation, and social class that influence their perceptions of and adjustment to Canadian society. Pre-migration HIV knowledge varied strongly by generation with older men recalling public panic concerning HIV and younger …


Neoliberalism, Masculinity, And Hiv Risk, Barry D. Adam May 2016

Neoliberalism, Masculinity, And Hiv Risk, Barry D. Adam

Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology Publications

Health science research on HIV risk focuses strongly on psychological traits of individuals as determinants of health and vulnerability. This paper seeks to place these findings in a larger social context marked by neoliberalism to provide some insights into the arenas of vulnerability to risk. These arenas are shaped by shifts in the environing political economy which generate subjectivities concordant with the pressures of the neoliberal turn to increasing marketization, individualization, and responsibilization. These pressures create cultures of expectation that accentuate particular trends defining success, masculinity, and risk in contemporary societies. In other words, the ‘risk factors,’ identified in the …