Travelling Thai Surrogate Mothers

Required and Restricted Mobility in Transnational Surrogacy

Bibliographic Data

ID4564491
AuthorsElina Nilsson (Uppsala University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume43
Issue8
Pages734-747
Publication date2024-11-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2024.2424364
PMID39526865
OpenAlexW4404243678
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited38

In response to the changing landscape of transnational surrogacy, the industry has introduced flexible business models requiring women to move within and across borders to act as surrogate mothers. However, knowledge about their experiences remain vague, particularly concerning women traveling abroad under illegal conditions. Building upon interviews with Thai surrogate mothers, I demonstrate how their im/mobility reveals critical insights into labor conditions and power relations and is formed within the global reproductive industry as well as the specific national context. I also argue that the women's im/mobility and flexibility are central when making themselves bioavailable for the global surrogacy market

Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Gender Studies · Reproductive Health and Technologies

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