TY - JOUR
T1 - Linked spaces of vulnerability
T2 - HIV risk amongst migrant Dai women and their left-behind husbands in Southwest China
AU - Deng, Rui
AU - Lyttleton, Chris
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In one county of Southwest China bordering Myanmar, large numbers of minority Dai women leave to work in southern Thailand. Many are married and they leave behind husbands and children, sending remittances and returning home intermittently. These women commonly establish relations with Chinese/Malaysian men in their worksites - massage parlours in the tourist sites near the Malaysian border. These men become second husbands just as the Dai women become second wives. This paper examines the complicated set of HIV risks and assumptions that emerge from the circular Dai exodus to Thailand and the manner in which transnational employment networks impact on domestic and sexual relationships for women and their non-migrant husbands back home.
AB - In one county of Southwest China bordering Myanmar, large numbers of minority Dai women leave to work in southern Thailand. Many are married and they leave behind husbands and children, sending remittances and returning home intermittently. These women commonly establish relations with Chinese/Malaysian men in their worksites - massage parlours in the tourist sites near the Malaysian border. These men become second husbands just as the Dai women become second wives. This paper examines the complicated set of HIV risks and assumptions that emerge from the circular Dai exodus to Thailand and the manner in which transnational employment networks impact on domestic and sexual relationships for women and their non-migrant husbands back home.
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U2 - 10.1080/13691058.2013.772241
DO - 10.1080/13691058.2013.772241
M3 - Article
C2 - 23484495
AN - SCOPUS:84885421729
SN - 1369-1058
VL - 15
SP - S415-S428
JO - Culture, Health and Sexuality
JF - Culture, Health and Sexuality
IS - SUPPL.3
ER -