This article focuses on the phenomenon of commercial surrogacy and the experiences of receiving healthcare by women who act as surrogates in India. Commercial surrogacy thrived in India, primarily located in the private healthcare sector, until the government announced a ban on the practice in 2016. With a spotlight on what transpires in a hospital space, beyond just healthcare provisioning in the case of commercial surrogacy, this article highlights how women acting as surrogates have differential access to healthcare when compared to their previous pregnancies. Moreover, it also draws attention to how, with the availability of reproductive technologies, hospitals emerge as sites of networks through which many socio-economically marginalised women negotiate livelihoods.
Cet article se concentre sur le phénomène de la maternité de substitution commerciale et les expériences de réception des soins de santé par des femmes agissant en tant que mères porteuses en Inde. La maternité de substitution commerciale a prospéré en Inde, principalement dans le secteur des soins de santé privés, jusqu’à ce que le gouvernement promulgue une interdiction en 2016. Mettant l’accent sur ce qui se passe dans un hôpital, au-delà des simples soins fournis dans le cas de la maternité de substitution commerciale, cet article éclaire la manière dont les femmes mères porteuses ont un accès différencié aux soins de santé par rapport à leurs grossesses précédentes. En outre, il attire l’attention sur la façon dont, avec la disponibilité des technologies de reproduction, les hôpitaux apparaissent comme des sites de réseaux à travers lesquels de nombreuses femmes marginalisées sur le plan socioéconomique négocient des moyens de subsistance.
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Until a decision by the Union Cabinet to ban commercial surrogacy was announced in 2016, the phenomenon flourished as part of a booming Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) industry in India. Availability of ARTs and surrogacy in India has thrived mostly in the private healthcare sector (Nadimpally, Marwah & Shenoi 2011). Commercial surrogacy brought about the otherwise unlikely interface of women from socio-economically marginalised backgrounds with many private hospitals and clinics for acting as surrogates, receiving standards of care that they otherwise have not in their own pregnancies, but now paid for by those who can afford to commission a surrogacy. Through a spotlight on commercial surrogacy and experiences of women acting as surrogates in India, this article focuses on firstly, differential treatments they receive and secondly, on hospitals as novel sites of negotiating livelihoods for them.
Commercial surrogacy acquired prominence globally as an instance of “reproduc...
She is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi. She was previously at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zürich as a postdoc recipient of the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship (2017-18). She has a PhD (2016) from the Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests lie in the field of feminist theory and gender studies, broadly and reproductive technologies, commercial surrogacy and reproductive labour in particular.
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BANERJEE, Sneha. Beyond Healthcare at Hospitals. Experiences of Women Acting as Surrogates in India In: L’hôpital en Asie du Sud: Politiques de santé, pratiques de soin [online]. Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2019 (generated 19 avril 2024). Available on the Internet: <http://books.openedition.org/editionsehess/23516>. ISBN: 978-2-7132-3155-1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/books.editionsehess.23516.
Banerjee, S. 2019. Beyond Healthcare at Hospitals. Experiences of Women Acting as Surrogates in India. In Jullien, C., Lefebvre, B., & Provost, F. (Eds.), L’hôpital en Asie du Sud: Politiques de santé, pratiques de soin. Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales. doi:10.4000/books.editionsehess.23516
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JULLIEN, Clémence (ed.) ; LEFEBVRE, Bertrand (ed.) ; and PROVOST, Fabien (ed.). L’hôpital en Asie du Sud: Politiques de santé, pratiques de soin. New edition [online]. Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2019 (generated 19 avril 2024). Available on the Internet: <http://books.openedition.org/editionsehess/23346>. ISBN: 978-2-7132-3155-1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/books.editionsehess.23346.
Jullien, C., Lefebvre, B., & Provost, F. (Eds.) 2019. L’hôpital en Asie du Sud: Politiques de santé, pratiques de soin. Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales. doi:10.4000/books.editionsehess.23346
Jullien, Clémence, et al., ed. L’hôpital en Asie du Sud: Politiques de santé, pratiques de soin. Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2019. Web. <http://books.openedition.org/editionsehess/23346>.
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Beyond Healthcare at Hospitals. Experiences of Women Acting as Surrogates in India