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Accepted Paper:
Migration, gender-based violence, and HIV risk of women in urban spaces: Evidence from India and Africa
Saradamoyee Chatterjee
(University of Cambridge)
Paper short abstract:
Discuss the causal link between gender-based violence and HIV risk of migrant women in India and Africa in urban areas. GBV increases HIV risk directly by forced sex and indirectly by limiting agency to maintain safe sexual behaviour through impact of fear and trauma by a repeated act of violence.
Paper long abstract:
Gender-based violence (GBV) affects 30-60% of women worldwide, with significant mental, physical, and sexual health consequences. Predominant among these health outcomes are sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Being a migrant in unfamiliar urban spaces accentuates women's risks to various forms of GBV and consequent HIV risk. Women experience GBV at all stages of migration and are committed by different actors, including smugglers, traffickers, authorities, intimate partners, and other migrants. Refugee women, asylum seekers, and undocumented and trafficked migrants are at high risk of sexual violence during the migration process and post-migration. Discussing studies from India and Africa, the paper draws multiple intersecting pathways demonstrating link between GBV and HIV risk of migrant women a) forced or coerced sex for trafficked women increases HIV risk due to damage to the genital area b) violence, or the threat of violence or threat of deportation in case of undocumented migrants, limits their agency to negotiate safer sexual behaviours c) experiences of violence in childhood or adolescence increases the likelihood of high-risk behaviour in later life, which accentuates in unfamiliar urban spaces, thus increasing risk of HIV d) without appropriate livelihood opportunities, migrant women in large cities engage in survival sex work and lack adequate choice to negotiate safer sexual behaviours e) migrant women without appropriate means of survival engage in low skilled labour in urban areas and lack agency to resist coercive and transactional sex f) violence as a protraction of stigma and discrimination experienced by HIV+women, hindering access to treatment and care.
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Accepted Paper:
Saradamoyee Chatterjee (University of Cambridge)
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
Gender-based violence (GBV) affects 30-60% of women worldwide, with significant mental, physical, and sexual health consequences. Predominant among these health outcomes are sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Being a migrant in unfamiliar urban spaces accentuates women's risks to various forms of GBV and consequent HIV risk. Women experience GBV at all stages of migration and are committed by different actors, including smugglers, traffickers, authorities, intimate partners, and other migrants. Refugee women, asylum seekers, and undocumented and trafficked migrants are at high risk of sexual violence during the migration process and post-migration. Discussing studies from India and Africa, the paper draws multiple intersecting pathways demonstrating link between GBV and HIV risk of migrant women a) forced or coerced sex for trafficked women increases HIV risk due to damage to the genital area b) violence, or the threat of violence or threat of deportation in case of undocumented migrants, limits their agency to negotiate safer sexual behaviours c) experiences of violence in childhood or adolescence increases the likelihood of high-risk behaviour in later life, which accentuates in unfamiliar urban spaces, thus increasing risk of HIV d) without appropriate livelihood opportunities, migrant women in large cities engage in survival sex work and lack adequate choice to negotiate safer sexual behaviours e) migrant women without appropriate means of survival engage in low skilled labour in urban areas and lack agency to resist coercive and transactional sex f) violence as a protraction of stigma and discrimination experienced by HIV+women, hindering access to treatment and care.
Gendered Violence and Urban Transformations in the Global South IV
Session 1 Friday 8 July, 2022, -