![]() ![]() ![]() The analysis explores, first, how the women’s decisions to undertake surrogacy, and, for some, further involvement in surrogacy are enabled through women’s social networks and family relationships. ![]() The thesis engages in dialogue with research on commercial surrogacy in other settings, and draws upon theoretical frameworks of gender, motherhood and kinship, local moral economies, and precarious intimate labour. More specifically, it investigates how surrogacy has affected the women materially, socially, and personally how they understand and negotiate family, kinship, and relationships in connection with their surrogacy experiences but also how the global surrogacy market and local context interact in shaping the conditions for surrogacy in Thailand. Based on in-depth interviews with twelve former surrogate mothers, the thesis analyses their accounts in relation to gendered, local, and global dimensions of transnational commercial surrogacy. This thesis explores the experiences of women who have acted as surrogate mothers in Thailand. ![]() Transnational commercial surrogacy is an arrangement where a woman gestates and delivers a child for intended parents from another country in exchange for money. ![]()
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