OVER COMING SOCIOECONOMIC STRUGGLE AND ENCOUNTERING RISK: LIVED EXPERIENCES OF SOUTH AFRICAN FEMALE MIGRANTS
OVER COMING SOCIOECONOMIC STRUGGLE AND ENCOUNTERING RISK: LIVED EXPERIENCES OF SOUTH AFRICAN FEMALE MIGRANTS
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1556-4797.2010.01058.x
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发表时间：
2010-11-01
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
Lurie, Mark
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作者：
Akileswaran, Chitra;Lurie, Mark
本文采用民族志的方法，研究了南非勒斯滕贝格附近非正式定居点15至45岁的移民妇女的动机和性行为。我们建立在先前的文献女性流动性在南非，其中描述了妇女的历史，在胁迫下，以维持农村宅基地，以支持正式的男性移民劳动力系统，使用迁移作为一种手段来逃避。我们的线人不仅是出于逃离贫困农村社区的愿望，而且也是出于自治的需要，这将使他们能够在家中供养家人。在女性先行者的引导下，我们的受访者意识到，她们的经济安全完全取决于与男性建立关系的能力，而男性既可以作为长期情人，也可以作为短期交易对象。这篇文章剖析了这些关系的复杂性质，不能简单地归结为卖淫。不同的权力动态在使用避孕套的情况下尤其明显，并表明，虽然妇女表现出赋权的实例，但她们非常容易感染性传播疾病，特别是艾滋病毒。关键词：南非，女性，移民，艾滋病毒，性交易
This article employs ethnographic methods to study the motivations and sexual behaviors of migrant women between the ages of 15 and 45 living in informal settlements near Rustenberg, South Africa. We build on the prior literature on female mobility in South Africa, which describes a history of women who, under coercion to maintain the rural homestead in order to support the formal male migrant labor system, used migration as a means to escape. Our informants were not only driven by a desire to flee their destitute rural communities, but also by a need for autonomy that would enable them to provide for their families back home. Guided by women who had made the journey before them, our informants' arrival was marked by a realization that their economic security rested solely on their ability to establish relationships with men, who served both as long-term lovers as well as shorter- term transactional pursuits. This article dissects the complex nature of these relationships, which cannot simply be reduced to prostitution. The varying power dynamics are especially evidence in the case of condom use, and suggest that while women exhibit instances of empowerment, they are highly vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases, particularly HIV. Keywords: South Africa, female, migration, HIV, transactional sex