This qualitative, narrative-based study was conducted to identify the conceptualization of sexual citizenship among migrant Peruvian women residing in the U.S. The need for this research was identified due to the limited studies on the concept of sexual citizenship of migrants. The research questions that this study explored were focused on the experiences of sexual citizenship of women through the different phases of their migration process. The main dissertation question addressed in this study was the following: How do migration experiences of Peruvian woman to the United States discursively position their sexual citizenship differently across their journey? Subquestions asked the following: (a) How does the process of migration impact migrant women's conceptualization of sexual citizenship? (b) How does the migration status of Peruvian women impact their access to human rights and sexual citizenship in the United States? and (c) How do the experiences before and during migration reshape the concept of sexual citizenship? All these questions were explored through experiences before migration, during migration journey, adaptation to a new environment, and settlement in the United States. Data were collected from interviews with 12 self-identified Peruvian women who migrated from Peru to the United States between 1987 and 2020. This timeframe was chosen as they were pivotal years in which violations of human and sexual rights happened apace in Peru, while simultaneously in the U.S. access to sexual rights and harmful immigration policies had a direct impact on the sexual citizenship of migrants. Narrative analysis was used to explore key themes. It was found that the construction of Peruvian women's sexual citizenship was influenced by Peru's national conditions and the introduction of neoliberalism which further exacerbated the unsafety of the social environment for women. To conceptualize the experiences of the participants, the term diasporic sexual citizenship was presented. Recommendations were identified for further research with other migrant populations in the U.S. to address the realities of sexual citizenship. Finally, this dissertation concludes that the need is urgent for the recognition and access to sexual citizenship of all Peruvian women and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

When a Black, Indigenous, or racialized individual or relationship works with a sex therapist, a host of cultural circumstances can contribute to intimacy discord and sexual dysfunction. This collection brings together clinicians and educators who share their approaches, bridging sex therapy with a client’s relationship to their racial, cultural, and ethnic identity. This essential book aims to enhance therapists’ supervisory practices and clinical treatments when working with culturally diverse and marginalized populations, fostering greater understanding and awareness. Innovative tools that integrate the impacts of acculturation, minority status, intersectionality, and minority stress are discussed, with case studies, demonstrations, and critical questions included. This collection is a necessary read for anyone who is training to be or who is an established sex therapist, marriage and family therapist, relationship counselor, or sexuality educator and consultant.

Whilst the politics of reproduction have been at the heart of feminist struggles for over a century and a half, their analysis has not yet come to occupy a central place in the interdisciplinary study of citizenship. This volume takes up the challenge posed by Bryan Turner, when he noted "the absence of any systematic thinking about familial relations, reproduction and citizenship" (2008), and offers the first major global collection of work exploring this nexus of practices and political contestations. The book brings together citizenship scholars from across Europe, the Americas, and Australia to develop feminist and queer analyses of the relationship between citizenship and reproduction, and to explore the ways in which citizenship is reproduced. Extending the foundational work of feminist political theorists and sociologists who have interrogated the public/private dichotomy on which traditional civic republican and liberal understandings of citizenship rest, the contributors examine the biological, sexual, and technological realities of natality, and the social realities of the intimate intergenerational material and affective labour that are generative of citizens, and that serve to reproduce membership of, and belonging to, states, nations, societies, and thus of "citizenship" itself. This book was published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.

In Peruvian Lives across Borders, M. Cristina Alcalde examines the evolution of belonging and the making of home among middle- and upper-class Peruvians in Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany. Alcalde draws on interviews, surveys, participant observation, and textual analysis to argue that to belong is to exclude. To that end, transnational Peruvians engage in both subtle and direct policing along the borders of belonging. These acts allow them to claim and maintain the social status they enjoyed in their homeland even as they profess their openness and tolerance. Alcalde details these processes and their origins in Peru's gender, racial, and class hierarchies. As she shows, the idea of return—whether desired or rejected, imagined or physical—spurs constructions of Peruvianness, belonging, and home. Deeply researched and theoretically daring, Peruvian Lives across Borders answers fascinating questions about an understudied group of migrants.

This is the first concise handbook on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) health in the past few years. It breaks the myths, breaks the silence, and breaks new ground on this subject. This resource offers a multidimensional picture of LGBT health across clinical and social disciplines to give readers a full and nuanced understanding of these diverse populations. It contains real-world matters of definition and self-definition, meticulous analyses of stressor and health outcomes, a extensive coverage of research methodology concerns, and critical insights into the sociopolitical context of LGBT individuals’ health and lives.

In Women’s Place in the Andes Florence E. Babb draws on four decades of anthropological research to reexamine the complex interworkings of gender, race, and indigeneity in Peru and beyond. She deftly interweaves five new analytical chapters with six of her previously published works that exemplify currents in feminist anthropology and activism. Babb argues that decolonizing feminism and engaging more fully with interlocutors from the South will lead to a deeper understanding of the iconic Andean women who are subjects of both national pride and everyday scorn. This book’s novel approach goes on to set forth a collaborative methodology for rethinking gender and race in the Americas.