Mobility and its liminal context: Exploring sexual partnering among truck drivers crossing the Southern Brazilian border

Lippman, Sheri A.; Pulerwitz, Julie; Chinaglia, Magda; Hubbard, Alan; Reingold, Arthur; Díaz, Juan Ramón García

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.07.002

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“…While on the road, truck drivers may be absent from their regular partners for long periods of time, less subject to social constraints, more likely to select commercial sex partners, and be exposed to high-risk sexual networks. [10][11][12] Truck drivers may have limited access to health services and commodities, including prompt and effective treatment of STI, condoms, and other prevention interventions, while on the road. [13][14][15] Truck drivers in South Africa are an important group for targeted HIV interventions.…”

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HIV prevalence and risk in long-distance truck drivers in South Africa: a national cross-sectional survey

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We estimated the prevalence of HIV and assessed correlates of HIV infection in long-distance truck drivers in South Africa. Between October 2003 and July 2004, 1900 long-distance truck drivers aged ≥18 years consented to interview and for testing for HIV. Participants were selected from a 10% stratified random sample of registered truck depots. A proximate-determinants framework was used to assess the hierarchical relationship between risk factors and HIV infection using logistic regression. HIV prevalence was 26% (95% confidence interval 24% to 28%). In multivariate analyses, HIV infection was associated with spending 2-4 weeks on the road (adjusted odds ratio 1.4; 95% confidence interval 1.1 to 1.9). There was modest evidence of a dose-response relationship between time on the road and HIV risk. Mobility increased risk by creating conditions for unsafe sex and reducing access to health services. Targeted HIV interventions for long-distance truck drivers are needed.

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HIV prevalence and risk in long-distance truck drivers in South Africa: a national cross-sectional survey

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“…Such has been the ubiquity and strength of such portrayals, that the transport sector in India is said to be witnessing a dearth of young drivers, as the 'bad name' earned in the past prevents young men from taking up the job (Ananth, 2012). Sexual health risks for this group have been documented across a range of contexts, including Bangladesh (Gibney, Saquib, & Metzger, 2003), Brazil (Lippman et al, 2007, Malta et al, 2006, the USA (Stratford et al, 2000) and Uganda (Gysels, Pool, & Bwanika, 2001). Studies frequently describe regular venues and meeting places with SWs whilst travelling.…”

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‘Mobile men with money’: HIV prevention and the erasure of difference

Aggleton

Bell

Kelly‐Hanku

2014

Global Public Health

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Mobile Men with Money is one of the latest risk categories to enter into HIV prevention discourse. Used in countries in Asia, the Pacific and Africa, it refers to diverse groups of men (e.g. businessmen, miners and itinerant wage labourers) who, in contexts of high population movement and economic disparity, find themselves at heightened risk of HIV as members of a 'most-at-risk population', or render others vulnerable to infection. How adequate is such a description? Does it make sense to develop HIV prevention programmes from such understandings? The history of the epidemic points to major weaknesses in the use of terminologies such as 'sex worker' and 'men who have sex with men' when characterising often diverse populations. Each of these terms carries negative connotations, portraying the individuals concerned as being apart from the 'general population', and posing a threat to it. This paper examines the diversity of men classified as mobile men with money, pointing to significant variations in mobility, wealth and sexual networking conducive to HIV transmission. It highlights the patriarchal, heteronormative and gendered assumptions frequently underpinning use of the category and suggests more useful ways of understanding men, masculinity, population movement, relative wealth in relation to HIV vulnerability and risk.

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“…Since Turner's work, the concept of liminality has been extended and stretched almost out of recognition to cover anything from a process from one state to another to the feeling of being in some sense marginal, as in the homeless, who are referred to as "separated from one social category and…suspended in an intermediate status before crossing over into another category" (Wingate-Lewinson, Hopps, & Reeves, 2010), or the mobility experienced by Brazilian truck drivers (Lippman et al, 2007).…”

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Liminality and disinhibition in online language learning

Cunningham

2011

IRRODL

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<p>The aim of this paper is to bring theoretical concepts from other areas of scholarly research to bear on synchronous online education in a cross-disciplinary effort to shed light on what is going on by introducing systems of thought from other areas. The liminality and associated communitas which are found in synchronous online learning environments are examined for their possible consequences for learning in general and language learning in particular. Like computer-mediated communication, liminality has been associated with disinhibitory effects. Lack of excessive inhibition has been shown to have positive effects on second language production. The position of the online learner as “neither here nor there” or perhaps simultaneously both here and there is investigated and discussed.</p><p> </p>

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Mobility and its liminal context: Exploring sexual partnering among truck drivers crossing the Southern Brazilian border

Cited by 35 publications

References 21 publications

HIV prevalence and risk in long-distance truck drivers in South Africa: a national cross-sectional survey

HIV prevalence and risk in long-distance truck drivers in South Africa: a national cross-sectional survey

‘Mobile men with money’: HIV prevention and the erasure of difference

Liminality and disinhibition in online language learning

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