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Try out PMC Labs and tell us what you think. Learn More. Given the different intellectual and activist genealogies of these three fields, our aim in the workshop and in this resulting symposium issue was twofold: firstly, to draw out the explicit and implicit contributions of these three areas to understanding and helping shape the changing landscape of transnational surrogacy and assisted reproductive technology ART and secondly, to work through apparent tensions among these three approaches so as to forge intellectual and political solidarities that can strengthen scholarship and influence policy.

For the workshop, we invited a small number of speakers to initiate the inquiry see SurrogART project, n. The exercise has convinced us that combining insights from queer reproductions, stratified reproduction, and reproductive justice holds out hope for better relations and improved organization and regulation of ART. This symposium issue serves as an opening and an invitation to further scholarship and action. In what follows, we first craft a route through the literatures on queer reproductions, reproductive justice, and stratified reproduction that highlight their potential for addressing core questions of justice in relation to transnational surrogacy and related reproductive technologies and the making and breaking of families.

We then explore the tensions among them and consider how these tensions might be resolved or kept in productive difference. We introduce the individual papers in this symposium issue. Two orienting precepts have framed the workshop and symposium issue. The second orienting precept was a commitment to working at a geographic and historical scale where the domestic and transnational hierarchies that fuel and are in turn fuelled by the fertility industry would be visible.

Clinic-based and national ART policies and statistics tend not to make cross-border and cross-privilege patterns easily visible. Any policy recommendations from this project should seek to highlight and then reduce the ways in which the fertility industry is animated by and reproduces injustice for some individuals and families, and seek to augment ways in which reproductive rights and justice are served.

The transnational fertility industry emerged within specific politics of race, gender and sexuality, offering the hope of relief from the gendered sorrow and stigma of infertility, bringing new ways of making biologically related families to single women and lesbian and gay would-be parents. This process transformed women into the primary patients in IVF whether or not the reason for a couple's infertility lay in the woman's body, and in some places igniting abortion wars because of the production and demise of in-vitro human embryos.

From the beginning, feminist, queer, critical race, and disability justice scholars, and critics of class dynamics, commodification, and the medicalization of birth, were part of articulating and shaping the stakes of the fertility industry Thompson, A few years later, gay men began to utilize IVF and enter commercial surrogacy agreements, with or without donor eggs Lewin, A narrative of reproductive loss and mourning, which earlier accompanied coming out as gay Smietana et al.

Recently, attention has also been drawn to bisexual parents. They had largely been made invisible by narratives that equated their experiences with those of lesbian or gay people, but recent studies carried out in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand suggest that while bisexual parents may have had more options for having biological children than lesbian women or gay men, their family and kinship arrangements were often non-nuclear, multi-parent and shifting Delvoye and Tasker, , Power et al.

Due to societal invisibilisation and stigmatization of their fluid identities, many bisexual parents have been found to suffer from significant minority stress. Distinctive debates have emerged regarding the reproductivity and family and kinship formation by trans people.

Gender transition for people who already have children may bear certain similarities to the situation of parents who come out to their children and partners as gay, lesbian or bisexual Haines et al.

Trans women of colour, in particular, are subject to high rates of violence and this additional precarity and susceptibility to premature death or, at the very least, often to heightened discrimination radically restricts any possibility of family formation Bachmann and Gooch, , Bailey, Fertility preservation, especially among children seeking biomedical gender transition, has become a cultural battleground.

Some have argued that children cannot possibly know their future reproductive identities or desires and have used that to oppose offering surgery or hormones to pre-pubertal trans youth. Advocates for trans youth, on the other hand, have argued that affordable fertility preservation such as gamete freezing should be part of the normal care of trans youth regardless of which procedures they opt for Halberstam, These new families were first created by lesbian or gay couples or singles through adoption, and later increasingly through medicalized assisted reproduction Epstein, , Mamo, , Smietana, For gay men, surrogacy offered the opportunity to have genetically related children.

In addition to any benefits of genetic relatedness to children gay men would share with heterosexual and lesbian parents, genetic relatedness offered gay men a bulwark against gender discrimination in adoption and custody in many legal systems Goodfellow, , Murphy, While gender norms have helped lesbian mothers draw on dominant scripts of femininity when fighting for parental rights e.

Lewin, , Kantsa and Chalkidou, , the same norms have sometimes intensified opposition to gay fatherhood. In many jurisdictions where only altruistic surrogacy is legal — such as in the UK and parts of New Zealand, Australia and Canada — contracts between resident individuals are possible regardless of sexual identity or civil status. However, in many other countries where some form of commercial or altruistic surrogacy is currently legal, it has remained more restricted for gay men than for heterosexual intended parents e.

In many of the countries that legalized gay marriage or partnership, motherhood for women in lesbian couples may be more supported legally and socially than fatherhood in gay couples Imaz, Gay men and heterosexual intended parents who could afford the expense of travel and commercial surrogacy abroad started commissioning surrogacy in those states in the USA where it is legal, and in other shifting locations such as India, Mexico, and Thailand before transnational surrogacy bans came into force Schurr, , Twine, Currently, the only stable surrogacy market available to intended parents of any nationality — as well as of any sexuality and civil status, including gay men — exists in some states in the USA, notably California.

The neoliberal form of the transnational fertility industry in the USA, as well as its use of imaginaries of middle-class gay couples with genetically related children resembling the dominant nuclear family model, have been subject to critique from queer scholars.

Ellen Lewin found this longing in her ethnographic account of diverse gay fathers in the USA and thus argued that some queer scholarship may have been perceived as an ideological imposition on gay people who wish to form families. She developed the concept in the context of her work with environmental charity workers who grappled with the ethical entanglements of their human reproductive desires in an overpopulated world.

In the early days of ART, feminist scholars approached kinship as a technology through which social and natural human life is organized Franklin, , Franklin and McKinnon, , Haraway, , Strathern, Cori Hayden showed that although lesbian mothers in the USA reaffirmed biological ties as a symbol of kinship, their practices of family creation challenged the dominant assumption that biological kinship is natural and self-evident.

These scholars noted that if there is nothing in biology itself that makes queer kinship unnatural, condemning other kinds of non-normative reproduction because they are seen as too abundant or too unnatural is also not sustainable.

TallBear argues that this imposition serves the patriarchal heteronormative, and increasingly also homonormative, imperial state, and turns a decolonial lens toward normative marriage and family formations.

Ulrika Dahl and Jenny Gunnarsson Payne argued for broad and inclusive definitions of queer kinship that move beyond same-sex rights and identitarian concerns and instead urge us to attend to the ways in which webs of people care for each other and for one another's children. Some maintained relationships that neither corresponded to traditional kin roles nor were estranged Blake et al.

As Mamo points out, the concept of affinity ties complicates the distinctions made in gay and lesbian kinship theories between ties created by blood and ties created by choice or love.

The reproductive justice movement was formed by women of colour in the USA in in the aftermath of the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo. Its explicit goal was to represent the needs of women of colour and other marginalized women and trans people by centering their voices, and thus uplifting the most marginalized families and communities.

Reproductive justice expands the narrow focus on contraceptive and abortion access and fertility services of white middle-class reproductive rights movements, and incorporates families' rights to be able to raise their children free from economic and state violence Price, The shift from reproductive rights to reproductive justice includes pivoting away from the idea of increasing reproductive choice and toward increased reproductive access and human rights.

Reproductive justice scholar and curator, and contributor to this symposium issue and to the Making Families workshop, Zakiya Luna, argues that reproductive justice comprises analytic framework, movement, praxis theory and practice and vision of the world Luna and Luker, Reproductive justice is both an activist movement and a movement very much in dialogue with Black, Indigenous, and other women of colour and queer of colour feminist scholarship. The following decades witnessed the rapid development and emergence of a global fertility industry including reproductive labourers in an increasingly competitive global marketplace.

Feminist and critical race scholars identified a number of ethical, moral and legal problems that are especially visible from a reproductive justice — rather than a reproductive choice — vantage point. These include the human rights of reproductive labourers and access to treatment for those without economic means and otherwise marginalized e. Scholars, policymakers, reproductive justice activists and healthcare providers face a number of competing challenges when considering how to respond to the concerns of would-be parents and reproductive service providers surrogates and gamete providers.

The fertility industry is a global profit-making industry that developed without any transnational or legally mandated bioethical guidelines in place. This industry also fails to serve a large proportion of the world's infertile population due to normative, regulatory and price barriers. The significant long-term effects on the psychological, emotional, or physical health of women and men participating in this industry as surrogates or donating their genetic material remain unknown.

The first-ever longitudinal studies to be carried out examine the psychological well-being of altruistic surrogates and their families, as well as children born through surrogacy in the UK Golombok, , Jadva et al. This field of research will fill an important empirical gap in the literature as the global surrogacy industry continues to grow.

For example, surrogates in India were found to experience high levels of depression, with regard to low social support during pregnancy, hiding surrogacy and criticism over it Lamba et al.

Studies of transnational and forced adoption show that the logics of race, class, and nation have been central to de-kinning children and parents from one another for far longer than ART has been available Choy, , Gordon, , Howell, , Marre and Briggs, Not surprisingly, then, feminist and critical race scholars have found continuing neo- and post-colonial echoes in the ways in which caste, class, racial and ethnic hierarchies still structure the delivery and marketing of ART Andreassen, , Davda, , Homanen, , Inhorn and Fakih, , Quiroga, , Russell, , Thompson, , Thompson, , Thompson, , Twine, For example, poor women, and women who are the direct descendants of formerly enslaved or colonized people in the USA, continue to face barriers to fertility.

Khiara Bridges has documented the denial of a right to privacy and over-surveillance of poor women of colour during pregnancy and birth even though they are highly likely to be medically underserved Bridges, , Bridges, Similar exclusion from fertility markets happens to those men who represent subordinated or marginalized masculinities by virtue of their class, race, citizenship or other positionalities Connell, In the twentieth century the logics of eugenics were mainstream — endorsed and taught at universities.

These logics, which privileged and supported the reproductive liberty of some, while restricting that of others, continues to have an afterlife in the fertility industry. The situation today is more complicated because economically privileged people of all racial, ethnic, religious and national origins can participate in this industry. However, those most likely to possess the financial resources to purchase ART services remain over-determined by the racial, class and opportunity structures established over the previous centuries of slavery, genocide and colonization.

Borders, prisons, occupation, and militarized zones all function as racialized reproductive technologies calling for decolonial and demilitarizing responses Kanaaneh, , Nahman, , Sufrin et al. Capitalism and the way that childbirth continues to be commodified interacts with these migratory, military, and carceral patterns.

Ironically, based on the same inequality, in the USA only a certain class of women may be perceived as respectable and trustworthy enough to be recruited for surrogacy, often lower middle-class white women of Protestant backgrounds Smietana, , and in the Indian former surrogacy industry, surrogates needed to have at least some social and economic capital to be recruited Rudrappa, Indigenous women, in particular, have articulated their fight for reproductive rights and justice in terms of genocide and neo-colonial appropriation, and called for decolonial reproductive studies Ralstin-Lewis, , TallBear, , Vega, Women and men with disabilities continue to resist their own extinction and assert their reproductive, sexual and family rights even as they face an ongoing history of sterilization and the widespread use of reproductive technologies to screen against and deselect disability Asch, , Asch and Wasserman, , Berne et al.

Forced sterilization, especially of Black and Latina mothers, also has a long history and was still occurring in California prisons as recently as Davis, , Gutierrez and Fuentes, , Stern et al. Dorothy Roberts and Sujatha Jesudason , as well as France Winddance Twine , have called for movement intersectionality around race, gender, and disability in the context of the rise of reproductive and genetic technologies.

Yet it is a powerful force for hope, resistance, and other ways of doing and imagining family. In the lives of the most vulnerable, alternative forms of family flourish, including multi-generational and mixed biological and non-biological families and patterns of care and support. And in the collective struggle against poverty, racism, sexism, ableism, and other forms of violence it promises true progress for everyone on earth toward a less genocidal world and more flourishing future for our families.

The concept of stratified reproduction was developed by the anthropologist Shellee Colen to describe the economic forces and affective conditions surrounding West Indian childcare workers in New York leaving behind their own families to take care of wealthy New Yorkers' families so as to provide for their own families back home Colen, Stratified reproduction has much in common with reproductive justice, with which it overlaps in drawing attention to the persistence of historical patterns of inequality and discrimination in the valuing of some but not other reproductions.

The two frameworks differ in a number of ways, however. Stratified reproduction is primarily an analytic and descriptive concept whereas reproductive justice names both an activist movement and an analytic framework.

Stratified reproduction references patterns of movement by some to undertake reproductive and care work for others that are enabled by global patterns of inequality.

This displacement follows the paths of elite and non-elite labour, capital, power, and conquest. Reproductive justice, on the other hand, started as an organization of women of colour in the USA and is first and foremost a movement rooted in community. Stratified reproduction is mostly about relative resource poverty and socioeconomic gradients that fuel working class labour migration.

Reproductive justice is more concerned with reproductive abjection, societal discrimination, and state institutions that use race as a technology to tear apart rather than support some kinds of families. Despite these differences, however, work within both frameworks emphasizes the connections between domestic hierarchies within the modern nation state based on race, class, gender, indigeneity, and transnational hierarchies among nations.

Postcolonial, critical race and indigenous approaches transgress the system of delimiting reproduction by nation states, as do studies of refugee and migrant fertility Tremayne, Powerful nations have long managed the reproduction of human citizens and resident non-humans in the interests of the empire and interstate commerce Franklin, Stratified reproduction is evident in transnational surrogacy and cross-border reproductive travel, which often exacerbates global divides Deomampo, , Rudrappa, Trudie Gerrits used the framework of stratified reproduction to describe those who travel to Ghana from nearby African nations and the reproductive return of Ghanaian citizens living abroad to access reproductive technologies in Ghanaian fertility clinics.

In some countries in the global south, transnational stratified reproduction that reflects prior colonial or imperial relations also reflects local and national meanings that value reproduction differently and that at least partially resist previous relations of power, and everywhere cultural specificity modulates transnational dynamics Franklin and Inhorn, , Merleau-Ponty, Likewise, Lucy van de Wiel found differences in how the British and Dutch news media report egg freezing and reproductive ageing Van de Wiel, Nations also engage in selection and deselection that stratify reproduction.

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Try out PMC Labs and tell us what you think. Learn More. Given the different intellectual and activist genealogies of these three fields, our aim in the workshop and in this resulting symposium issue was twofold: firstly, to draw out the explicit and implicit contributions of these three areas to understanding and helping shape the changing landscape of transnational surrogacy and assisted reproductive technology ART and secondly, to work through apparent tensions among these three approaches so as to forge intellectual and political solidarities that can strengthen scholarship and influence policy. For the workshop, we invited a small number of speakers to initiate the inquiry see SurrogART project, n. The exercise has convinced us that combining insights from queer reproductions, stratified reproduction, and reproductive justice holds out hope for better relations and improved organization and regulation of ART. This symposium issue serves as an opening and an invitation to further scholarship and action. In what follows, we first craft a route through the literatures on queer reproductions, reproductive justice, and stratified reproduction that highlight their potential for addressing core questions of justice in relation to transnational surrogacy and related reproductive technologies and the making and breaking of families.

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