Surrogacy as commodified transnational care work

Ursula Apitzsch

Chapter 32 in Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work, 2023, pp 392-400 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Care work as the production and reproduction of human biological and societal life is today globally more and more becoming outsourced along the borders of gender and poverty. The most extreme - because most invasive, most painful, and most dangerous - form of commodified care industry is the production of children by poor women for rich paying couples or individuals with the help of ‘fertility clinics’ in poor countries like India, Cambodia and Nepal and increasingly - after Indian’s change of legal policies in 2016 - also in Eastern European regions like Ukraine. This chapter gives an update of the latest developments of global fertility industries, the labour of women involved in this, and tries to find conceptual categories to discuss this phenomenon.

Keywords: Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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