Cross-border reproduction: the reproductive market in Angola and Brazil
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12-09-2018
Rosana Machin
Maria Helena Oliva Augusto
Douglas Mendosa
Abstract
Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) have grown significantly since the first birth through in vitro fertilization (IVF) in 1978 in the United Kingdom. Despite the massive global expansion of ART services over the past years, they remain inaccessible in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this article, we consider transnational mobility around ARTs by investigating the search for infertility treatment by Angolan couples in Brazil based on empirical material produced on the services of assisted reproduction in Brazil. Quantitative and qualitative methodologies were used. The quantitative online survey, answered by 84 out of 141 fertility clinics in Brazil, showed that there were a significant number of people coming to this country from Africa, Europe and North and South America, with a significant proportion of couples from Angola. To explore those findings, in-depth interviews were carried out with health professionals in Brazil (Sao Paulo) and Angola, and couples undergoing fertility treatments. The study discusses the dynamics involved in seeking treatment from developing countries (south-south relationship), the reproductive strategies and their implications in terms of cultural practices and community.
How to Cite
Machin, R., Augusto, M. H. O., & Mendosa, D. (2018). Cross-border reproduction: the reproductive market in Angola and Brazil. Papeles De Identidad, 2018(2), papel 198. https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.18888
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Keywords
assisted reproductive technologies, cross-border reproduction, Brazil, Angola
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Boerma, J. T., and Mgalla, Z. (1999). Women and infertility in Sub-Saharan Africa. Reproductive Health Matters, 7(13), 183-188.
CFM (2013). Resolução CFM n°2013/2013. Brasília/DF: Conselho Federal de Medicina. Available at: https://portal.cfm.org.br/images/PDF/resoluocfm%202013.2013.pdf.
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Fonseca, C., and Sá, G. (2011). Apresentação. Ciência, poder e ética: implicações e desdobramentos antropológicos. Horizontes Antropológicos, 17(35), 7-23.
Gerrits, T. (2016). Assisted reproductive technologies in Ghana: transnational undertakings, local practices and 'more affordable' IVF. Reproductive BioMedicine and Society Online, 2, 32-38.
Goodwin, M. B. (Ed.) (2010). Baby markets. Money and the new politics of creating families. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Gürtin, Z., and Inhorn, M. (2011). Introduction: travelling for conception and the global assisted reproduction market. Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 23(5), 535-537.
Hörbst, V. (2016). 'You cannot do IVF in Africa as in Europe': the making of IVF in Mali and Uganda. Reproductive BioMedicine and Society Online, 2, 108-115.
Hörbst, V., and Gerrits, T. (2016). Transational connections of health professionals: medicoscapes and assisted reproduction in Ghana and Uganda. Ethnicity & Health, 21(4), 357-374.
Hörbst, V., and Wolf, A. (2014). ARVs and ARTs: medicoscapes and the unequal place-making for biomedical treatments in sub-Saharan Africa. Medical Anthropology Quaterly, 28 (2), 182-202.
Ikemoto, L. C. (2009). Reproductive Tourism: equality concerns in the global market for fertility services. Law and Inequality, 27(277), 277-309.
Inhorn, M. (Ed.). (2007). Reproductive disruptions: gender, technology, and biopolitics in the new millennium. Oxford: Berghan Books.
Inhorn, M. (2011). Globalization and gametes: Islam, assisted reproductive technologies, and the Middle Eastern State. In C. H. Browner and C. Sargent (Eds.). Reproduction, globalization, and the state (pp. 126-138). Durham. Duke University Press.
Inhorn, M., and Gürtin, Z. (2011). Cross-border reproductive care: a future research agenda. Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 23(5),665-676.
Inhorn, M., and Patrizio, P. (2015). Infertility around the globe: new thinking on gender, reproductive technologies and global movements in the 21st century. Human Reproduction Update, 21(4), 411-426.
Krolokke, C., Foss, K. A., and Pant, S. (2012). Fertility travel: the commodification of human reproduction. Cultural Politics, 8(2), 273-282.
Larsen, U. (2000). Primary and secondary infertility in sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal Epidemiology, 29, 285-291.
Latour, B. (1993). We have never been modern. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Lazzeri, T. (2017). De Angola para o Brasil para ter um bebê. Revista Época. 20/01/2016. Available at: http://epoca.globo.com/vida/noticia/2016/01/de-angola-por-um-bebe.html.
Machin, R. (2014). Sharing motherhood in lesbian reproductive practices. Biosocieties, 9(1), 42-59.
Nahman, M. (2011). Reverse traffic: intersecting inequalities in human egg donation. Reproductive Biomedicine Online, 23, 626-633.
Pfeffer, N. (2011). Eggs-ploiting women: a critical feminist analysis of the different principles in transplant and ferility tourism. Reproductive Biomedicine Online, 23(5), 634-641.
REDLARA. Rede Latino Americana de Reprodução Assistida (2015). Available at: http://redlara.com/aa_portugues/.
Shenfield, F., et al. (2010). Cross border reproductive care in six European countries. Human Reproduction, 25, 1361-1368.
Souza, M.C.B. (2014). Latin America and access to Assisted Reproductive Techniques: a Brazilian perspective. JBRA Assisted Reproduction, 18(2), 47-51.
Spar, D. (2005). Reproductive tourism and the regulatory map. The New England Journal of Medicine, 352(6), 531-533.
Thompson, C. (2005). Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Whittaker, A. (2011). Cross-border reproduction care in Asia: implications for access, equity and regulations. Reproductive Health Matters, 19(37), 107-116.
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