Objective Surrogacy is the process in which a woman carries and delivers a baby to other
person or couple, known as intended parents. When carriers are paid for surrogacy, this is …

Scholarly interest in reproductive travel has increased in recent years, but travel within, to
and from the African continent has received much less attention. We reviewed the literature …

Making Families: Transnational Surrogacy, Queer Kinship, and Reproductive Justice. We
were seeking to bring into direct conversation three theoretical frameworks that have each …

This paper explores how reproductive life has changed through the development,
transnational spread, and commercialization of assisted reproductive technologies (in vitro …

What shapes would-be parents' choices of gamete donors for third-party IVF? Following
extensive ethnographic fieldwork in South African fertility clinics and egg donor agencies, I …

The global movement of people across international borders to undergo assisted
reproductive treatment is common, although there is little accurate data. In this article, we …

Health and wellness–related travel, also known as medical tourism, is a topical
phenomenon with a wide range of effects in both local and transnational contexts. This …

In this article, we offer an analysis of the development of “repronubs”: less-known locations
offering small-scale, niche cross-border gestational surrogacy or surrogacy services for a …

As one of the most medically advanced nations in the world, it is observed that more
Japanese couples are travelling abroad for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART). At …

This chapter outlines how kinship, descent, and marriage have been conceptualized and
used by anthropologists over time. It discusses the research showing the central role of …