Defining Parents, Making Citizens: Nationality and Citizenship in Transnational Surrogacy

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 210-225

  Deomampo, Daisy ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

assisted reproduction; citizenship; India; kinship; surrogacy

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; MOTHER; PARENT; PREGNANCY;

ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERNATIONALITY; PARENTS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SURROGATE MOTHERS;

EID: 84930819220     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2014.890195     Document Type: Article

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