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Conceptualizing Surrogacy as Work-Labour
Journal of South Asian Development ( IF 0.9 ) Pub Date : 2018-06-18 , DOI: 10.1177/0973174118778481
Anindita Majumdar 1
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Using ethnographic findings, this article reflects on Indian women engaged in commercial surrogacy for foreign and Indian couples and expands on the existing ideas of paid and unpaid employment by conceptualizing transnational commercial surrogacy in India. The latter is undertaken through a mapping of the meanings surrogates and intended couples make of their participation in the transnational commercial surrogacy arrangement. Here, ideas about motherhood, domesticity and contractual labour come together to create an understanding of the unique role of surrogates in the arrangement. While emerging research has aimed to conceptualize the surrogate’s contribution through differing theoretical understandings of work and labour, my ethnographic findings suggest that surrogacy and its linkages with paid work are more complex than conveyed by its researched connections with care work and/or sex work. Invoking established theorizing of sexualized care work and reproductive choice, I point to the need for a deeper engagement with the idea of work-labour itself. Within this wider conceptualization are social categories that mediate between commerce and intimacy—including that of the paid domestic worker. By using frames used to study paid domestic work in India and South Asia, I portray surrogacy and the commercial surrogate through notions of domesticity, family and intimacy paying particular attention to its linkages with paid work.

中文翻译:

将代孕概念化为劳动劳动

本文利用民族志研究结果,反思了为外国和印度夫妇从事商业代孕的印度妇女,并通过将印度的跨国商业代孕概念化,扩展了现有的有偿和无偿就业观念。后者是通过对代理人和意向夫妻参与跨国商业代孕安排的意义进行映射来进行的。在这里,关于母性、家庭生活和合同工的想法汇集在一起​​,形成了对代理人在安排中的独特作用的理解。虽然新兴研究旨在通过对工作和劳动的不同理论理解来概念化代理人的贡献,我的民族志研究结果表明,代孕及其与有偿工作的联系比其与护理工作和/或性工作的研究联系所传达的更为复杂。援引关于性护理工作和生育选择的既定理论,我指出需要更深入地参与工作-劳动本身的概念。在这个更广泛的概念中,有中介商业和亲密关系的社会类别——包括有偿家庭工人的社会类别。通过使用用于研究印度和南亚有偿家庭工作的框架,我通过家庭、家庭和亲密关系的概念来描绘代孕和商业代理人,特别注意其与有偿工作的联系。我指出需要更深入地了解工作劳动本身的概念。在这个更广泛的概念中,有中介商业和亲密关系的社会类别——包括有偿家庭工人的社会类别。通过使用用于研究印度和南亚有偿家庭工作的框架,我通过家庭、家庭和亲密关系的概念来描绘代孕和商业代理人,特别注意其与有偿工作的联系。我指出需要更深入地了解工作劳动本身的概念。在这个更广泛的概念中,有中介商业和亲密关系的社会类别——包括有偿家庭工人的社会类别。通过使用用于研究印度和南亚有偿家庭工作的框架,我通过家庭、家庭和亲密关系的概念来描绘代孕和商业代理人,特别注意其与有偿工作的联系。
更新日期:2018-06-18
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