University College London, Anthropology, London, UK.
Anthropol Med. 2022 Sep;29(3):323-337. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2022.2046700. Epub 2022 Jun 13.
Migrant access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services has been highlighted as an urgent priority for the 800,000+ Venezuelans who have arrived in Peru in recent years due to political and economic crisis. Venezuelan migrants in Peru, however, negotiate their access to SRH services in what anthropologists term a 'geography of blame', and are accused and stigmatised for having imported sexually transmitted infections to the local population. Alongside this blame, female migrants are highly sexualised and face stigma, resulting in real and perceived threats to their safety, wellbeing, and integration. By juxtaposing ethnographic research and 50 interviews conducted with female migrants living in Lima, their neighbours, and with local NGOs, the paper argues how stigma is itself a neglected public health issue. Addressing SRH needs for Venezuelan migrants is not a question of rolling out health campaigns or providing pills, but that underlying social issues such as sexualisation and stigma need to also be recognised and incorporated into policy.
近年来,由于政治和经济危机,80 多万委内瑞拉人抵达秘鲁,移民获得性与生殖健康(SRH)服务成为当务之急。然而,秘鲁的委内瑞拉移民在获取 SRH 服务时,会受到人类学家所谓的“指责地理学”的影响,他们因将性传播感染带入当地人口而受到指责和污名化。除了这种指责,女性移民还被高度性化,并面临污名化,这导致她们的安全、福祉和融入受到实际和感知到的威胁。本文通过对比民族志研究和对居住在利马的女性移民、她们的邻居以及当地非政府组织进行的 50 次采访,认为污名化本身就是一个被忽视的公共卫生问题。为委内瑞拉移民满足 SRH 需求不仅仅是开展健康运动或提供药丸的问题,而是需要认识到性化和污名化等潜在的社会问题,并将其纳入政策。