Ethnic migrant workers living with HIV
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Issued Date
2009
Copyright Date
2009
Resource Type
Language
eng
File Type
application/pdf
No. of Pages/File Size
xiii
Access Rights
open access
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ผลงานนี้เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของมหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล ขอสงวนไว้สำหรับเพื่อการศึกษาเท่านั้น ต้องอ้างอิงแหล่งที่มา ห้ามดัดแปลงเนื้อหา และห้ามนำไปใช้เพื่อการค้า
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Mahidol University
Bibliographic Citation
Thesis (M.A. (Health Social Science))--Mahidol University, 2009
Suggested Citation
Li Zhu Chen Ethnic migrant workers living with HIV. Thesis (M.A. (Health Social Science))--Mahidol University, 2009. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/108160
Title
Ethnic migrant workers living with HIV
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Advisor(s)
Abstract
This Yi ethnic rural migrant workers living with HIV/AIDS suffer a double stigma and discrimination in the Chinese social cultural context. This thesis reports an exploratory qualitative research with in-depth interviews of 17 Yi ethnic migrant workers living with HIV/AIDS suffering experience of stigma and discrimination in urban areas. From macro level to micro level, this thesis demonstrates Yi migrant workers living with HIV/AIDS suffer stigma and discrimination through their daily lives: The state has separated people into two groups: normal people and people living with HIV/AIDS Also, unlucky , bad and dirty and sin words were used to describe them under cultural, religious, media and ideological system During their therapy, they were looked upon as a contagious and dangerous group by hospitals Many places of employment or workplaces have some latent rules against HIV/AIDS and migrants for their horrible disease and their ambiguous Yi migrant identities Their children are also labeled stealers and rude students by their schoolmates and teachers They are separated for eating, sleeping and living among their partners, families, and communities for their infection disease and so on. Under the social cultural context, self stigma and discrimination causes the most suffering. They withdraw from contact with society, feeling shameful , dirty and guilty , seeing themselves as deformed and contagious etc, which causes them to lose their basic ability and right to have a normal daily life. Two management strategies were found disclosing or not disclosing their HIV/AIDS infection identities. To avoid being stigmatized and discriminated against, they hide their HIV/AIDS positive status from their workplaces, children's schools, clinics, friends and family members and limit physical contact with their children. For seeking support, some of them disclosed their status to members of families, friends and workplaces, agencies and so on.
Description
Health Social Science (Mahidol University 2009)
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Degree Level
Master's degree
Degree Department
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
Degree Discipline
Health Social Science
Degree Grantor(s)
Mahidol University