Mobilizing collective identity to reduce HIV risk among sex workers in Sonagachi, India: The boundaries, consciousness, negotiation framework

摘要: The significantly low rate of HIV infection and high condom use among sex workers in Kolkata, India is partially attributable to a community-led structural intervention called the Sonagachi Project which mobilizes engage education, formation community-based organizations advocacy around work issues. This research examines how participants mobilize collective identity manner influences use. Using purposive sampling methods, 46 were selected 2005 for in-depth qualitative interviews. Taylor Whittier's (Taylor, V & Whittier, N (1992). Collective identities social movement communities: lesbian feminist mobilization. In A. Morris C. Mueller (Eds.) Frontiers theory. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press) model identity-formation through boundaries, consciousness negotiation was used interpret results. Subjects mobilized by (1) building boundaries demarcating in-group from out-group members, (2) raising about as legitimate labor transformative change that results program participation, (3) negotiating with members. establishes conceptual link between framework mobilization Condom motivated each element model: condoms mark enunciate clients labor, help negotiate interactions clients.