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Den gränsöverskridande surrogatmarknaden. En fallstudie om biokapitalets globalisering utifrån en Kambodjansk kontext
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS).
2018 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [sv]

Tidigare feministiska studier om kommersiellt surrogatmödraskap har huvudsakligen fokuserat på hur surrogatindustrin fungerar inom ett land. Med en utgångspunkt i en feminist-marxistisk begreppsapparat, syftar följande kandidatuppsats att synliggöra hur dagens sydostasiatiska surrogatmarknad verkar gränsöverskridande och informellt. Utifrån en kvalitativ fallstudie på Kambodja kan vi inneha en förståelse till hur globalisering möjliggjort surrogatföretagens gränsöverskridande expansion, men även vilka ytterligare osäkerhetsfaktorer som drabbar surrogaterna när de flyttas över gränser. Studiens resultat argumenterar för att det är både materiella och idémässiga skiften som legitimerar att kvinnors biologiska material blivit en del av ett bioekonomiskt, profitskapande projekt. Genom att undersökningen erhåller ny empiri bidrar studien till att etablera en riktning för framtida forskning inom det IPE-feministiska paradigmet. Samtidigt övertygar studiens resultatet om att det feminist-marxistiskt perspektivet är relevant inom fältet Internationella Relationer.

Abstract [en]

Previous feminist studies on commercial surrogacy have mainly focused on how the surrogate industry operates within a country. With a starting point from a feminist-marxist conceptual framework, the following bachelor thesis aims to highlight how the current southeast asian surrogacy market operates cross-border and informal. Based on a qualitative case study in Cambodia, we can understand how globalization enabled the cross-border expansion of the surrogate companies, but also which additional factors of insecurity that will affect the surrogates when they are moved across borders. The results of the study argue that it’s both material and ideational shifts that legitimize that women’s biological material became part of a bioeconomic profitable project. By gaining new empirical knowledge, the study contributes to establishing a direction for future research within the IPE-feminist paradigm. At the same time, the result of the study convinces that a feminist-marxist perspective is relevant within the field of International Relations.

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Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle , 2018. , p. 49
Keywords [sv]
Globalization, Biocapital, Bioeconomy, Commercial surrogacy, Neoliberalism
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Social Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21520Local ID: 26159OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-21520DiVA, id: diva2:1481426
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KS GPS International Relations
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Available from: 2020-10-27 Created: 2020-10-27Bibliographically approved

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