Abstract

Little is known about the organisation and types of sex work emerging urban Latino immigrant communities. To develop a typology of the local sex work industry, we conducted 39 in-depth interviews with foreign-born and US-born Latina female sex workers, Latino immigrant clients, and key informants such as bartenders and brothel managers in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Interview transcripts were coded through an iterative process, and descriptions of sex work were grouped into types. Three types of direct sex work (the street, houses that operate as brothels, and weekend brothels operating out of hotels), three types of indirect sex work (bar workers, opportunistic, and as-needed), and one type that could be either direct or indirect (individual arrangements) were identified. Understanding the local sex industry and its variability has implications for developing and implementing programmes and interventions tailored to the context of sex work type in order to reduce HIV transmission.

摘要

对新兴城市拉丁裔移民社区的组织和性工作类型知之甚少。为了对当地性工作行业进行分类，我们对美国马里兰州巴尔的摩的外国出生和美国出生的拉丁裔女性性工作者、拉丁裔移民客户以及调酒师和妓院经理等关键信息提供者进行了 39 次深入访谈. 访谈记录通过迭代过程编码，性工作的描述按类型分组。三种直接性工作（街头、妓院经营的妓院和在旅馆外经营的周末妓院），三种间接性工作（酒吧工作人员、机会性工作和按需工作），以及一种可以是确定了直接或间接（个别安排）。