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Culturally Competent HIV Prevention
With by Kurt C. Organista Occasional Paper No. 47
Mexican farmworkers are among the poorest, most marginalized, and exploited Latinos in America. Although they are part of a century-and-a-half old tradition of supplying essential, labor-intensive work to multi-million and billion dollar industries and corporations, they struggle and toil at the bottom of the U.S. stratification system, where they are extremely vulnerable to numerous life-compromising problems and circumstances. Severe and neglected health problems have already been documented for migrant laborers (Rust, 1990). A recent review of the literature on HIV risk and migrant laborers (Organista and Balls Organista, 1997) adds the imminence of an AIDS epidemic further complicating the lives of migrant laborers in general, and Mexican farmworkers in particular, who comprise the majority of migrant laborers in the United States. The purpose of this chapter is to provide sociodemographic and HIV risk profiles for Mexican/Chicano farmworkers, followed by a discussion of culturally competent HIV/AIDS research with this unique population, and finally, recommendations for both future research as well as culturally appropriate HIV prevention strategies. It is worth mentioning that the frequency with which Mexican migrant laborers eventually settle in the U.S. blurs the distinction between Mexican and Chicano farmworkers. Hardcopy Price: $0.00
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