Mapping Global Surrogacy
Surrogacy is a technology increasingly used to enable families and individuals to have a child of their own. It is both a contested topic and a practice regulated very differently around the world. This report offers a critical feminist and political economy analysis of the global surrogacy industry, arguing that the industry is not merely a response to rising infertility or changing family structures, but is fundamentally supply-driven – shaped by global inequalities, legal loopholes, and the strategic investments of fertility entrepreneurs, or what this report calls “care brokers”. This analysis of the realities of the dynamics and regulations around surrogacy allow us to make assumptions of the future of the reproductive industry.
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Table of contents
Preface: A Feminist Lens on the Global Surrogacy Industry
Executive Summary: Mapping Global Surrogacy - Care Brokers and the Politics of Supply
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Beginnings of the Commercial Surrogacy Market
Chapter 3: Reproductive Hubs: Country Profiles
Chapter 4: Hybrid Surrogacy and Southern Reproductive Nubs
Chapter 5: Care Brokers and the Global Surrogacy Web
Chapter 6: The Future of the Baby Making Industry
Appendix 1: Key Concepts
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