Migrant sex workers and state regulation in North Cyprus

Lisaniler, Fatma Güven; Rodríguez, Leopoldo José Cabrera; Uğural, Sevin

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2005.02.006

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“…In a very recent study, Turkish university students were shown to be under serious risk of sexually transmitted diseases (8). Moreover, North Cyprus is one of the destinations of women from Eastern Europe seeking economic opportunities abroad as sex workers (5).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviour Towards Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Turkish Cypriot Adolescents

Kaptanoğlu¹,

Süer²,

Diktaş³

et al. 2013

Cent Eur J Public Health

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Background: The incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is increasing among adolescents all around the world. There may be differences in knowledge and attitudes among different cultures and ethnic populations. The aim of this study is to determine knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of Turkish Cypriot adolescents related to STDs. Objectives: To assess knowledge of STDs, attitudes towards sexual behaviour and STDs among the secondary school students. Methods: A cross sectional study, with a sample size of 423 students, was conducted by using a semi-structured questionnaire. Simple random sampling method was applied during the selection of the sample. Results: The mean age of all participants was 15.61±1.22, 211 (49.88%) of them were male and 212 (50.12%) female. The majority of students (91.25%) stated that they had some knowledge about STDs; hovewer, 8.75% of the participants did not have any knowledge at all. Most of them, 42.32% described school as a source of information on STDs, nonetheless, only 7.57% of the group cited health care professionals as the information source. The majority of students (97.64%) has never been treated for STDs. Among 423 applicants, 93.14% indicated that they would have appreciated information about STDs during the high school years. Conclusions: There is a general understanding that the students are willing to participate and are in need of seminars that will be held about STDs during high school attendance. Furthermore, awareness raising educational events on this matter should be reviewed and revised in order to come up with more powerful ways of fighting against STDs transmission in this young population group of Turkish Cypriot (TC) community.

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confidence: 99%

“…Pre-marital sex among Turkish Cypriot women is strongly condemned while in young men it is either condoned or openly encouraged. This results in a significant demand for sexual services on the part of young men (5). As a result, young Turkish Cypriots may have very unique believes, traditions, and knowledge about sexuality, hence STDs.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviour Towards Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Turkish Cypriot Adolescents

Kaptanoğlu¹,

Süer²,

Diktaş³

et al. 2013

Cent Eur J Public Health

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“…The ‘heightened itinerancy’ (Agustin 2006) of migrant sex workers who engage in frequent circular movements between different sites and venues in a short period of time inhibits the formation of organisations and collective networks that may help to campaign for better working conditions and to disseminate health information (Kempadoo 1998). State policies that implicitly allow migrant sex workers to engage in prostitution but simultaneously submit them to punitive regulations also exacerbate their vulnerability to health risks by denying them access to healthcare and health education, and by depriving them of state protection from violence and recalcitrant clients (Guven‐Lisaniler et al 2005).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, empirical research into this group of workers has demonstrated that although most migrant sex workers face a very restricted set of choices when deciding to choose sex work as an income‐generating activity, they often reach this decision without coercion (Agustin 2004, Anarfi 1998, Cooper et al . 2007, Guven‐Lisaniler et al 2005, Watenabe 1998).…”

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Heterogeneous and vulnerable: the health risks facing transnational female sex workers

Choi

2010

Sociology Health & Illness

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Representations of transnational sex workers have been dominated by the trafficked victim discourse that often overlooks the heterogeneity of this population and variations in the health risks that different sub-groups face. This paper addresses this deficiency by examining differences in the socio-economic backgrounds, working conditions, HIV ⁄ AIDS knowledge, and vulnerability to health risks of female sex workers from Russia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Mainland China currently working in the Chinese city of Macau. It also examines the correlates of three health risks: client-perpetrated violence, non-condom use and condom failure. The results show major differences in the socio-economic profiles, working conditions and exposure to health risks of the four groups of workers studied. They also suggest that age, ethnicity, education, economic pressure, AIDS and STI knowledge, and workplace condom-use norm are significant correlates of the three health risks examined. The findings shed light on the importance of locating the social and cultural contexts that constrain the response of different groups of transnational sex workers to health risks, and the need to tailor intervention measures to meet the specific conditions of individual groups. They also point out the urgency of tackling the interpersonal and structural obstacles to safe sex practices among marginalised populations.

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“…A positive test results in immediate deportation. If the tests are negative the woman is granted the work permit, but she is obliged thereafter to attend weekly check-ups for the infectious diseases [4]. The venereology department in Dr Burhan Nalbantoğlu Government Hospital succesfully and dedicatedly continues to perform these controls since 1990's, in association with the gynecologists.…”

Section: Venereal Diseasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The history of dermatology, venereology and dermatopathology in different countries - North Cyprus

Kaptanoğlu¹,

Mullaaziz²

2016

Glob Dermatol

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Migrant sex workers and state regulation in North Cyprus

Cited by 14 publications

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Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviour Towards Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Turkish Cypriot Adolescents

Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviour Towards Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Turkish Cypriot Adolescents

Heterogeneous and vulnerable: the health risks facing transnational female sex workers

The history of dermatology, venereology and dermatopathology in different countries - North Cyprus

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