“Quiet, Dependent, Nice, and Loyal”: Surrogacy Agencies’ Discourse of International Surrogacy

Eyal, Hedva; Moreno, Adi

doi:10.1017/9781316671986.008

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“…and follow up on the legal issues to officialize and regulate the parent-child relationship and the citizenship status of the baby. Although commercial surrogacy is allowed in Israel, its complex bureaucracy and high cost opened the door for a successful transnational surrogacy industry (Eyal and Moreno 2018). After Thailand, India, Nepal, Cambodia, Laos, and Mexico tightened their surrogacy legislation, Israeli surrogacy agencies discovered Georgia, the perfect new "mother" destination, easily reachable via a short direct flight, and having permissive surrogacy legislation, a deregulated economic architecture, and a low-cost reproductive labor force.…”

Section: Sociotechnical Nexus Of Multiple Actors and Scalesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Fertility Chains: An Integrative Political Economy Approach to Understanding the Reproductive Bioeconomy

Vertommen

Pavone

Nahman

2021

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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Over the last two decades, social scientists across disciplines have been researching how value is extracted and governed in the reproductive bioeconomy, which broadly refers to the various ways reproductive tissues, bodies, services, customers, workers, and data are inserted into capitalist modes of accumulation. While many of these studies are empirically grounded in single country–based analyses, this paper proposes an integrative political economy framework, structured around the concept of “global fertility chains.” The latter articulates the reproductive bioeconomy as a nexus of intraconnected practices, operations, and transactions between enterprises, states, and households across the globe, through which reproductive services and commodities are produced, distributed, and consumed. Employing a diffractive reading of the literature on commodity chains and care chains, this unified approach scrutinizes the coproduction of value, biology, and technoscience and their governance mechanisms in the accumulation of capital by taking into account (1) the unevenly developed geographies of global fertility chains, (2) their reliance on women’s waged and unwaged reproductive labor, and (3) the networked role of multiple actors at multiple scales without losing sight of the (4) constitutive role of (supra)national states in creating demand, organizing supply, and accommodating the distribution of surplus value. We empirically ground this integrative political economy approach of the reproductive bioeconomy through collaborative, multisited fieldwork on transnational reproduction networks in Israel/Palestine, Romania, Georgia, and Spain.

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Section: Sociotechnical Nexus Of Multiple Actors and Scalesmentioning

confidence: 99%