Living Up to the Ideal of Respectability: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Implications for Unmarried Migrant Workers, Single Mothers, and Women in Prostitution in Sri Lanka

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Jordal, Malin,1973-Uppsala universitet,Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH),Internationell sexuell och reproduktiv hälsa/Larsson (författare)

Living Up to the Ideal of Respectability : Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Implications for Unmarried Migrant Workers, Single Mothers, and Women in Prostitution in Sri Lanka

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Uppsala :Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis,2014
78 s.
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LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:uu-221584
ISBN:9789155489243
https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-221584URI

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Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine,1651-6206 ;989

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This thesis aims to gain a deeper understanding of relationships and sexuality of women at risk of social exclusion in Sri Lanka and the risk of violations of their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) that they might face. Individual qualitative interviews with migrant women workers (n=18) and men (n=18) in the Free Trade Zone (FTZ), women facing single motherhood (n=28) and women formerly involved in prostitution (n=15) were conducted. Conceptual approaches included gender, social navigation and SRHR. The interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis, qualitative content analysis and discourse analysis. Findings revealed that the migrant women workers negotiated norms of respectability in a society that highly stigmatizes FTZ women workers, while the men identified conflicting constructions of masculinity existing in the FTZ. The women facing single motherhood navigated oppressive and stigmatizing social forces, and the women in prostitution constructed themselves as respectable in opposition to their societal disvalue and marginalization. In order to retain an image of sexual innocence, unmarried women are likely to refrain from demanding or demonstrating SRHR knowledge and accessing services. Furthermore, gender power imbalances leave the women vulnerable to sexual persuasion, coercion and violence. Once pregnant, social, legal, and knowledge barriers hinder or delay them in accessing abortion services. Unmarried pregnant women are thus left with the alternatives of adoption, infanticide, and suicide or become stigmatized single mothers with risks of health and social exclusion for mother and child. Extreme marginalization and limited power make women in prostitution vulnerable to unsafe sex, rape and violence. In conclusion, these women are likely to face numerous and serious SRHR hazards. The complexity of gendered social circumstances and the SRHR implications demonstrated in this thesis, add to the SRHR knowledge in Sri Lanka, and should inform politicians and policy makers about the need to improve the situation of all women in Sri Lanka.

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Sexual and reproductive health and rights
Free Trade Zone
gender relations
social navigation
unmarried women
migrant women workers
masculinity
single mothers
women in prostitution
qualitative interviews
Sri Lanka

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Olsson, Pia,Associate ProfessorUppsala universitet,Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH)(Swepub:uu)piols086 (preses)
Essén, Birgitta,Associate ProfessorUppsala universitet,Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH)(Swepub:uu)bires412 (preses)
Öhman, Ann,ProfessorDepartment of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå, Umeå Center for Gender Studies (UCGS) (preses)
Marecek, Jeanne,Senior Research ProfessorDepartment of Psychology, Stanford University (opponent)
Uppsala universitetInternationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH) (creator_code:org_t)

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