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CHAIRPERSON
Dr Ko Pei-Chun, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
ABSTRACT
In their desperate quest for conception, thousands of infertile couples from around the world—including parts of Asia—are traveling to the cosmopolitan “reprohub” of Dubai. These couples cannot find safe, affordable, legal, and effective IVF services in their home countries, and their stories offer a window into the world of infertility—a world that is replete with pain, fear, danger, frustration, and financial burden. These hardships dispel any notion that traveling for in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment is reproductive “tourism.” Instead, this paper forwards the concept of “reprotravel” as part of a conceptual “reprolexicon,” explaining new circuits of reproductive mobility in the 21st-century. Such reproductive mobilities speak to emerging inter-Asian connections and alternate pathways to parenthood across the globe.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University. A medical anthropologist focusing on gender and health in the Middle East and Arab America, Inhorn is the author of six books on the subject, including, The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2012), Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai (Duke University Press, 2015), and America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins (Stanford University Press, Forthcoming January 2018).
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