Table 2. Migrants in transit through Mexico: Forms of violence by gender, 2009–2015.
Variables | General N = 12,023 Percentage (95% confidence interval) | Male N = 9,344 Percentage (95% confidence interval) | Female N = 2,612 Percentage (95% confidence interval) | TTTs N = 67 Percentage (95% confidence interval) | p-value (1) | p-value (diff male/TTTs) | p-value (diff fem/TTTs) | |
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Suffered some form of violence | 29.44 | 30.91 | 23.51 | 55.22 | 0.053 | 0.003 | 0.001 | |
n = 12,023 | (22.57–36.30) | (23.61–38.20) | (16.00–31.01) | (40.54–69.91) | ||||
Psychological violence | Humiliation | 37.92 | 34.42 | 52.77 | 64.86 | 0.037 | 0.001 | 0.295 |
n = 3,539 | (28.61–47.24) | (25.14–43.69) | (35.60–69.94) | (46.68–83.05) | ||||
Threat | 52.30 | 55.99 | 35.34 | 45.95 | 0.015 | 0.17 | 0.356 | |
(40.39–64.21) | (44.50–67.49) | (18.24–52.45) | (25.75–66.14) | |||||
Rejection: | for being a woman | 9.19 | ||||||
n = 11,225 | (6.47–11.91) | |||||||
for being indigenous | 1.38 | 0.97 | 2.72 | 1.49 | 0.000 | 0.689 | 0.365 | |
(0.87–1.89) | (0.62–1.32) | (1.84–3.60) | (-1.14–4.13) | |||||
because of sexual preference | 1.09 | 0.76 | 1.07 | 47.76 | 0.304 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
(0.69–1.49) | (0.41–1.11) | (0.58–1.56) | (31.83–63.69) | |||||
because of undocumented status | 25.90 | 20.02 | 46.75 | 32.84 | 0.008 | 0.141 | 0.245 | |
(16.94–34.86) | (13.79–26.26) | (27.03–66.46) | (17.30–48.37) | |||||
for not having money | 12.40 | 11.94 | 13.63 | 28.36 | 0.489 | 0.039 | 0.055 | |
(8.62–16.19) | (7.68–16.21) | (9.01–18.25) | (14.57–42.15) | |||||
because of age | 2.42 | 2.17 | 3.33 | 1.49 | 0.192 | 0.616 | 0.276 | |
(1.53–3.31) | (1.23–3.12) | (1.66–5.00) | (-1.14–4.13) | |||||
Physical violence | Kidnapping | 9.66 | 9.38 | 10.75 | 13.51 | 0.61 | 0.406 | 0.58 |
n = 3,539 | (5.58–13.75) | (4.87–13.89) | (5.72–15.78) | (3.13–23.89) | ||||
Theft | 68.72 | 71.85 | 53.75 | 72.97 | 0.052 | 0.918 | 0.164 | |
(53.73–83.71) | (56.18–87.52) | (35.29–72.20) | (52.37–93.57) | |||||
Beating | 24.16 | 24.48 | 22.64 | 24.32 | 0.524 | 0.982 | 0.82 | |
(19.54–28.78) | (19.55–29.41) | (16.37–28.91) | (10.78–37.87) | |||||
Sexual violence | Rape | 3.90 | 1.49 | 14.17 | 21.62 | 0.000 | 0.003 | 0.243 |
n = 3,539 | (2.13–5.67) | (0.73–2.24) | (10.19–18.15) | (9.14–34.10) | ||||
Sex in exchange for goods and/or money | 2.63 | 1.97 | 4.07 | 29.73 | 0.025 | 0.006 | 0.01 | |
(1.47–3.78) | (0.78–3.16) | (2.45–5.70) | (10.64–48.82) |
(1) for difference between males and females
The number of observations presents differences among variables as a result of missing values.
Source, Leyva R, Infante C. Multicenter Project: International Migration and Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Migrants from Mexico and Central America, 2009–2015