Skin color, interviewer-ascribed ethnoracial classification, racial/ethnic self-identification & discrimination: Commentary on Perreira and Telles (2014)

Mapping out COVID-19, Social Distancing, Pandemic in Juxtaposition with Sexual Desires Practices in a Gay Latino Immigrants Men [GLIM] Study

“…Given my expertise in the field of working as a front-line worker with Latino immigrants in Ontario and having been trained in Adult Education, Community Studies, essential community Statistics and Epidemiology, Qualitative/Quantitative methodologies and after taking some courses about sexualities, I realized that part of the gap in knowledge about HIV and sexualities was related to the role of understanding pleasure, love, attraction and role that sexualities play in the life of Gay Latino immigrants. Added to these factors, a study needed to be conducted taking into account the relationship or interaction between GLIM] and White men in Canada, where -invisible, subjective, and politically incorrect themes -there was a differential power, agency, and status (not only legal/illegal immigration), but also cultural, lack of official languages proficiency in Canada (English/French), large economic gap, and social networks [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51].…”