Abstract

This chapter examines the cross-border movement of various groups of actors for egg donation and commercial surrogacy to or from India, Germany and Israel. It traces the cross-border ‘reproflows’ of actors, technologies, desires, hopes, gametes, embryos etc. and discusses how national legislations along with the actors’ social and cultural attitudes create various types of consumerism, choice, capital accumulation and labour relations. This gives a distinct character to the global ‘reproscapes’. Based on the findings from ethnographic studies, it identifies the specific local and moral regimes at each of these countries that further stratifies reproduction and the global reproscapes.