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Does Powerlessness Explain Elevated HIV Risk Among Tajik Labor Migrants? An Ethnographic Study

Jing Luo,S. Weine,Mahbat Bahromov,A. Golobof

2012 · DOI: 10.1080/15381501.2012.678114
Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services · 10 Citations

TLDR

Though powerlessness did not appear to account for whether labor migrants engaged in more HIV risk behaviors, the harsh living and working conditions of external labor migration impacted how the migrants manifested these HIV risks by amplifying group masculine norms and behaviors.