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Migration And Sexual Health Among Gay Latino Migrants To Canada, Barry D. Adam
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 …
Infectious Behaviour: Imputing Subjectivity To Hiv Transmission, Barry D. Adam
Infectious Behaviour: Imputing Subjectivity To Hiv Transmission, Barry D. Adam
Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology Publications
This paper examines the sometimes implicit models of human behaviour circulating in science, government, and media that assign agency to HIV transmission, and contrasts these institutional ideas with the narratives of people at risk as they go about their everyday lives. Three kinds of risk talk, arising from interviews, show the limitations and paradoxes of leading constructions of the subjectivity of HIV transmission. The first shows a lack of fit, when the social conditions and presumptions that hold up the leading discourses are missing, and so choices and actions correspondingly follow alternative logics. The second type concerns “semiotic snares” that …