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Transnational Surrogacy

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Chapter 4 offers an overview of the complex motivations that underlie the demand for a child, and the recourse to surrogacy, together with the situations that encourage the Global South’s women to rent out their womb. Poverty remains the key factor. Nahavandi argues that even though surrogacy is one of the genuine advances in modern biomedicine, it has been turned into a big business, reflecting a world where increasingly everything can be outsourced. In this process, wealthier people from the Global North in particular are using women’s bodies in the Global South’s as a resource. The chapter considers some of the key countries where surrogacy is increasingly offered.

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Nahavandi, F. (2016). Transnational Surrogacy. In: Commodification of Body Parts in the Global South. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50584-2_4

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