Globalization and reproductive tourism in the United Arab Emirates

Over the past 2 decades, the discipline of anthropology has been deeply concerned with the processes and effects of globalization around the world. One of the major anthropological theorists of globalization, Arjun Appadurai, has delineated a "global cultural economy" in which global movem...

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Veröffentlicht in:Asia-Pacific journal of public health Jg. 22; H. 3 Suppl; S. 68S
Hauptverfasser: Inhorn, Marcia C, Shrivastav, Pankaj
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: China 01.07.2010
Schlagworte:
Ambulatory Care Facilities
Anthropology, Cultural
Female
Health Services Needs and Demand
Humans
Infertility - therapy
Internationality
Interviews as Topic
Male
Medical Tourism - statistics & numerical data
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
Reproductive Techniques, Assisted - utilization
Terminology as Topic
United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
ISSN:1941-2479, 1941-2479
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Zusammenfassung:Over the past 2 decades, the discipline of anthropology has been deeply concerned with the processes and effects of globalization around the world. One of the major anthropological theorists of globalization, Arjun Appadurai, has delineated a "global cultural economy" in which global movements operate through 5 pathways, which he famously called "scapes." This article uses the language of "scapes" to examine the global flows involved in so-called "reproductive tourism," or the search for assisted reproductive technologies across national and international borders. Reproductive tourism entails a complex "reproscape" of moving people, technologies, finance, media, ideas, and gametes, pursued by infertile couples in their "quests for conception." This article examines reproductive tourism to and from the United Arab Emirates, which is now the site of intense globalization and global flows, including individual and population movements for the purposes of reproductive and other forms of medical care.
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ISSN:1941-2479
1941-2479
DOI:10.1177/1010539510373007