title: [Central American migrants' sexual experiences and rights in their transit to the USA].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the causes and circumstances that determine the way in which migrants experience their sexuality and how this impacts their sexual rights.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative study conducted between April 2009 and July 2010 in Chiapas, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas. We conducted 22 in-depth interviews to migrants in transit and to ten different key actors. For the analysis we used elements of grounded theory.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Migrants know and identify the risks they may encounter in their transit but have scarce access to services to effectively exercise their sexual and reproductive rights. Their vulnerability makes them internalize and accept the violence enacted on them as part of their destiny and as what they must suffer in order to reach the USA.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Violence, including sexual violence, determines much of the experiences of their transit through Mexico. Differences between groups and between male and female migrants are determined by gender inequalities and power.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México. cesar.infante@insp.mx
authors.forename: César
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Infante
authors.forename: Rubén
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Silván
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Caballero
authors.forename: Lourdes
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Campero
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002489:Central America / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D012742:Sex Offenses; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult