Mostly operating from a risk
and risk-reduction paradigm, existing research on migrants in Vietnam tends to
conceptualize sex and risky sexual behaviors as isolated life domains.
This
study begins to develop a contextually rich understanding of migrants' sex
lives by examining the relationships among sex, work, and the constant
pendulum-like migrating movements of 23 Vietnamese married migrants in Hanoi
and Ho Chi Minh City.
Using data from in-depth interviews, it was found that
most participants had no sex in the city; this was followed by visits to the
home village, where they had sex with their spouses as often as possible to
make up for the "long drought" in the city.
Within this sexual
schema, sex came secondary, and even peripherally, to migrants' working lives;
thus, exhaustion from work was cited by migrants as the overwhelming factor
leading to their sexual problems.
This study suggests that migrants' intimate
lives are more strongly linked to their working lives than has previously been
recognized, and that their sexual behaviors should be viewed in tandem with the
hardships of their working lives.
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- 1School of Social Work, San Jose State University, One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192, USA. huong.nguyen@sjsu.edu
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