Emerging Adulthood,RegularMigration and Sexuality:Latin American immigrants in Madrid

The main idea of this paper is to discuss the sexual and reproductive health of Latin American immigrants in Madrid, briefly approaching three different questions: do they believe that there are differences about sexual and reproductive health issues between what they lived in their countries and Spain?; are they having different behaviors in Spain than in their origin countries and, if so, which ones?; and finally, what do they perceive about sexual health services and access in Spain? Regular Latin American immigrant's sexuality in Europe has been rarely addressed by researchers, even with the known importance of irregular migration sexuality studies. And since there is risks and vulnerabilities to which migrants are exposed, we should ask ourselves about what is happening with those regular migrants that fit into the emerging adults category, those who are emigrating to pursue college or postgraduate courses, those who have been living in their parent´s home until migration, and that, in most cases, are not married and don’t have children. First of all I want to make some methodological and theoretical considerations about the research from which this data come from. From a qualitative background the sample focuses on regular immigrants, women and men that fit into the emerging adulthood category. Thirty-two in depth interviews were made in Madrid, addressing sexual beliefs and behaviours through life, especially since they have left their countries. My research includes interviews with emerging adults from Argentina, Bolivia, Equator and Mexico. The exclusion criteria did not include sexual identity, but the final sample contains only one man who identifies himself as gay and only one woman who identifies herself as lesbian