 "Anindita Majumdar")
Your book is about the local-global politics of reproduction and talks of transnational surrogacy. Why is transnational so important in surrogacy?
The transnational forms an important setting to my book, Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un)Making of Kin in India — criss-crossing the spaces of the IVF clinic in Delhi, the Indian gestational commercial surrogate, and the foreign and Indian couples who commission the surrogacy arrangement. Since we heard of two German twins struggling to get back home from India in 2008, the ‘transnational’ has become an important and essential element of what we see and understand about commercial surrogacy in
