Discrimination and stigma in the Campeche city labor field

Abstract

Campeche City, a Mexican urban area with little more than 250 thousand people and with an economy based on mining (oil extraction), construction, manufacturing, and a service sector, is a traditional and conservative city, where people belonging to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, transvestite an intersex (LGBTTTI) collectives constantly undergo attitudes of discrimination and segregation in their workplace.

This research aims to determine why some work environments, which reduce in many ways both the possibility of having safe spaces and the opportunity for a better standard of living, are increasingly hostile to people with a diverse. To respond to this latent concern in many contexts, this question arises: What level of discrimination or stigmatization exist in works environments in Campeche City? to provide an answer, carried out an analysis on the local labor market, in both formal and informal settings, with members of the LGBTTTI community, using a methodology based on the implementation of structured interviews, which allowed us to obtain direct and detailed information on their own experiences and work reality. The results are surprising because, although the promotion of issues related to gender and equality is frequent, there is a marked contradiction between the acceptance of people with sexual diversity and the respect of their human and labor rights.