Surrogacy in Russia - Christina Weis

Surrogacy in Russia

An Ethnography of Reproductive Labour, Stratification and Migration

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Buch | Hardcover
192 Seiten
2021
Emerald Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-83982-897-3 (ISBN)
85,95 inkl. MwSt
Surrogacy in Russia focuses on commercial surrogacy workers in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union. Examining workers' reproductive migrations, the study presents insights into cross-border reproductive treatment and travels for assisted reproduction, and links to ethnicity, feminism, women’s and gender studies.
This timely and fascinating feminist ethnography is the first of its kind to focus on commercial surrogacy workers in Russia and from other countries of the former Soviet Union. Examining surrogacy workers' reproductive labour, and experiences of stratification and migration, the study presents innovative insights into current research on global surrogacy practices and travels for assisted reproduction. It links to wider fields of studies, such as ethnicity, feminism, women's and gender studies in the post-Soviet sphere.


Weis expertly brings together rigorous ethnographic research, feminist debates and anthropological theory to explore the attributed significance of origin, citizenship, race, ethnicity and religion, and the cultural framing and social organization of surrogacy as an economic exchange; thereby challenging and contributing to the discourse of surrogacy as a gift, a labour of love, a maternal sacrifice or work.


Tracing surrogacy workers' journeys for surrogacy work across Russia, Weis introduces geographic and geopolitical stratifications as two new lenses of stratified reproduction to analyse how surrogacy in Russia builds on and propels surrogacy workers' mobility and results in reproductive migrations.


Given the rapid global increase in the use of surrogacy and its increasingly internationalised nature, Weis's research has implications for surrogacy users, medical practitioners and regulators, as well as researchers concerned with (cross-border) surrogacy, reproductive stratifications and reproductive justice.







Shortlisted for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2022

Christina Weis holds a PhD in Sociology with Anthropology and is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for Reproduction Research, De Montfort University, UK. Her research interests lie in medical anthropology, reproductive rights, social aspects of in/fertility and assisted reproductive technologies, and migration. She is particularly interested in ethnographic methods, feminist research design and the geographic region of Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

Prologue: From Moldova to Russia for surrogacy. Gabriela's story

Chapter 1. Introduction: Surrogacy in Russia

Chapter 2. Becoming a surrogacy worker

Chapter 3. Making the relationship work

Gabriela's story continued

Chapter 4. Reproductive migrations

Chapter 5. Disruptions and reconfigurations

Conclusion: At crossroads

Appendix 1: Participants overview

Appendix 2: Notes on research relationships

Appendix 3: Emotion work

Appendix 4: Surrogacy workers' accommodations

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Emerald Studies in Reproduction, Culture and Society
Verlagsort Bingley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 397 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-83982-897-8 / 1839828978
ISBN-13 978-1-83982-897-3 / 9781839828973
Zustand Neuware
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