Transgender sex workers and sexual transmigration between Guadalajara and San Francisco

Latin American Perspectives

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-50

  Howe, Cymene ^a   Zaraysky, Susanna ^b   Lorentzen, Lois ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Mexico; Migration; Sexuality; United States

Indexed keywords

GENDER; MIGRATION; PROSTITUTION; SEXUALITY;

CALIFORNIA; GUADALAJARA [JALISCO]; JALISCO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37449002594     PISSN: 0094582X     EISSN: 1552678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0094582X07310956     Document Type: Article

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