They traverse borders and straddle relationships that test the boundaries of race, class, religion, and nationality. As surrogates, the women Pande meets get to know and make the most of advanced medical discoveries. While some women are coerced into the business by their families, others negotiate with clients and their clinics to gain access to technologies and networks otherwise closed to them. Pande's interviews prove surrogates are more than victims of disciplinary power, and she examines the strategies they deploy to retain control over their bodies and reproductive futures. From recruitment to training to delivery, Pande's research focuses on how reproduction meets production in surrogacy and how this reflects characteristics of India's larger labor system. In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita Pande visits clinics and hostels and speaks with surrogates and their families, clients, doctors, brokers, and hostel matrons in order to shed light on this burgeoning business and the experiences of the laborers within it. In the meantime, like us on Facebook for features, guides and tips on upcoming events and follow us on Twitter for links to other Copenhagen academia news stories.Surrogacy is India's new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. Tickets are free and can be ordered at you have a good story? We would like to hear from you.
It will take place Tuesday 24 November at 7:00 pm and Wednesday, 25 November at 4:00pm at the University of Copenhagen, Karen Blixens Vej 4, Auditorium 22.0.11. The lecture/performance is a collaboration between the Danish-based production company Global Stories and the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Institute of Arts and Cultural Studies. Is this a winning situation for everyone involved or an exploitation of poor women in Third World countries? Amrita Pande will examine the ethical dilemmas that arise from the commercialization of surrogacy by telling the untold stories of the surrogate mothers.
Couples from around the world are able to fulfill their dreams of parenting their own biological children and surrogate mothers are able to gain up to five years salary during their pregnancy. Commercial surrogacy is becoming increasingly popular in India.
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