Index

Christina Weis (De Montfort University, UK)

Surrogacy in Russia

ISBN: 978-1-83982-897-3, eISBN: 978-1-83982-896-6

Publication date: 19 October 2021

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Weis, C. (2021), "Index", Surrogacy in Russia (Emerald Studies in Reproduction, Culture and Society), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 171-172. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83982-896-620211025

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Copyright © 2021 Christina Weis. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited


INDEX

Agency arrangements
, 59–60

Altruism
, 42

Awareness of surrogacy
, 23–26

Bourdieu’s theory of convertibility of capital
, 30, 82

Childbirth
, 73–77

Client parents
, 11–12, 55–56, 58, 91, 121–122

Commercial surrogacy
, 119–121

agencies
, 36–37

Commodification
, 58

Commuting arrangements
, 99–103

Commuting surrogacy worker
, 81–82, 84

Continuous motion
, 99–103

COVID-19
, 111

impact
, 111–113

pandemic
, 119

Current liberal policy context, challenges and potential changes to
, 114–118

Departure
, 103–108

Direct or agency-mediated surrogacy arrangement
, 58–65

Disruptions
, 111–113

Embryo transfer (s)
, 92–96

Emotion

‘in the field’
, 21–22

work
, 21, 36

Employee–employer arrangement
, 70–71

Financial penalties
, 14–15

Framing of surrogacy
, 122–123

Gabriela’s story
, 79–80

Geographic stratification
, 82

in selecting and paying surrogacy workers
, 86–92

Geopolitical stratification
, 82

in selecting and paying surrogacy workers
, 86–92

Graded payment schemes
, 88–92

(Im)mobility, nine months of
, 96–103

In vitro fertilisation (IVF)
, 5–6

Legal settings of surrogacy in Russia
, 8–15

Lived realities of mobilised and immobilised ‘carriers’
, 92–103

Meddesk. ru website
, 11–12, 84

Methods, sample and recruitment
, 17–20

Migrant surrogacy worker
, 81–82, 84, 96, 99

Mobility
, 96

Moral
, 33–34

Non-compliance
, 14–15

Philanthropic motives
, 29

Pre-term births
, 14

Pregnancy
, 96–103

Provincial surrogacy worker
, 86–88

Racialized imaginaries
, 46–52

Reconfigurations
, 114–118

Relational work
, 55, 65–66

Relationships
, 55

childbirth
, 73–77

direct or agency-mediated surrogacy arrangement
, 58–65

don’t work
, 71–73

as duty
, 65–69

personal relationships
, 71

surrogacy worker and client parents
, 55–56

work
, 65, 69, 71, 73

Repro-hubs
, 82, 86–87

Reproductive capital
, 30, 57

Reproductive migrations
, 81

delivery and departure
, 103–108

geographic and geopolitical stratifications in selecting and paying surrogacy workers
, 86–92

lived realities of mobilised and immobilised ‘carriers’
, 92–103

Russia’s Repro-hubs, St. Petersburg and Moscow
, 82–86

Reproflows
, 82–83

Russian Association of Human Reproduction (RAHR)
, 8

Russian public attitudes to surrogacy
, 23–24

SARS-CoV-2
, 111

Serious games
, 56

Social organisation of surrogacy in Russia
, 8–15

Social relations
, 56

St. Petersburg
, 1–2

Stratified reproduction
, 82

Subsistence farming
, 87–88

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
, 114–115

Surrogacy
, 5–6, 111

agencies
, 11, 19, 21, 44

arrangements
, 5–6, 24

awareness of
, 23–26

Bill
, 119–120

exclusive
, 42–43

gestation as work
, 26–30

hubs
, 82

pregnancy
, 1

research matters
, 15–17

in Russia
, 6, 8, 23, 41

types of surrogacy
, 5

Surrogacy workers
, 1, 11–14, 18, 23, 121–122

challenging assumptions of motherhood
, 33–38

make decision
, 62–65

organising
, 38–41

perception of relationship to surrogate child
, 30–33

selecting docile, healthy and ‘poor, but not too poor’ worker mother
, 41–46

VIP arrangements
, 64