Description
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. 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. 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.