Carolin
Schurr
Schurr
REPRODUCTIVE GEOPOLITICS
Project Description
Governing and Contesting In/Fertility within the Swiss Asylum Context
Reproductive Justice: A Feminist Concept in Motion
Gendering and Racializing In/fertility among Marginalized Women in Mexico
The Reproductive Geopolitics of Spain’s Strawberry Industry
The Invisible – Modern Slavery in Europe
Intimate Strangers: Commercial Surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the Making of Truth
Short Film Program: Reproductive Justice
Making Babies. Egg Donation and the Politics of Reproduction.
Kassensturz - Strawberries from Spain - to buy or not?
Erdbeeren isst sie jetzt nicht
Exhibition: Making Babies in Bern
Toxic Textures
Elusive Exposures Event Series
Exhibition: Making Babies in Berlin
"Making Babies?" Panel Discussion Video
In Ukraine and Russia, surrogacy is seen as work
Lidl setzt sich stärker für Pflückerinnen ein als Coop und Migros
Sie pflücken unsere Erdbeeren unter prekären Bedingungen
WOZ – Solidarität im Zeichen der Erdbeere
Erkenntnis als kollektiver Prozess
Bi aller Liebi... So kann und will ich nicht schwanger werden
Eierstock mit Beinen?
Als Julie ging, ihre Eizellen einzufrieren
Podcast: La selección genética en la clínica de fertilidad: tendencias presentes y futuras.
Deutschlandfunk – Erst die Technologie, dann die Ethik?
Bayern 2 debattiert: Eizellenspende - Was würde eine Legalisierung bedeuten?
Blick – Nachfrage nach Leihmüttern steigt
Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik – Das Geschäft mit dem Kinderwunsch
RaBe – Ausstellung «Babys machen»
WOZ – Der Begriff «Spende» führt in die Irre
L’autoconservation des ovocytes, une réponse médicale à un problème social ?
SRF – Für das Wunschkind nach Spanien
SRF – Leihmutterschaft: pro und contra
Frankfurter Rundschau – Gibt es ein Recht auf ein Kind?
Governing in/fertile bodies in Mexico’s past and present
Der Bund – eine Legalisierung stoppt den Reproduktionstourismus nicht
ZDF – Müssen wir die Eizellenspende legalisieren?
RBB – Eizellenspende: Zwischen Verbot und realer Anwendung
Zeit online – "Sie wollen die Eizellspende legalisieren, ohne die Details zu klären"
Tagesanzeiger – Eine Legalisierung stoppt den Reproduktionstourismus nicht
SRF – Geschichten hinter den Spenderinnen
Welt – Was mit den Babys von Leihmüttern im Krieg passiert
20minuten – Schweizer Eltern bangen um Leihmutter-Babys aus der Ukraine
DW Deutsch – Ukrainische Leihmütter im Krieg
Intimate liminality in Spain's berry industry
Leihmutterschaft in Zeiten des Krieges
Peripartale Gesundheit asylsuchender Frauen in der Schweiz: who cares?
Erschwerter Zugang zu Verhütung in den Asylzentren: Perspektiven von geflüchteten Frauen in der Schweiz
Governing in/fertile bodies in Mexico’s past and present
Globale Intimität multisensorisch erforschen und ausstellen
Egg freezing, genetic relatedness, and motherhood:A binational empirical bioethical investigation of women's views
Imagining Motherhood and Becoming a Mother After Egg Freezing. An Anthropological Study in the French Context
Exploring Medical Egg Freezing as a Disease Management Strategy
Exhibiting Toxicity: Sprayed Strawberries and Geographies of Hope
Book Review: Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territory, and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold
Intimate Technologies: Towards a Feminist Perspective on Geographies of Technoscience
Selective Assisted Reproduction
Book Review: Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging.
Spain's Reproductive El Dorado. The Economization of Spanish "Egg Donation"
Feminist Geographies of Technosciences
Transnational Reproductive Mobility from Switzerland
The Promise of a Healthy Child. An Analysis of the Spanish Egg Donation Economy.
Intimate Lives in the Global Bioeconomy: Reproductive Biographies of Mexican Egg Donors
Reproductive Rights
Fertility Clinic
The Affective Economy of Transnational Surrogacy
The Baby Business Booms: Economic Geographies of Assisted Reproduction
Multiple Mobilities in Mexico’s Fertility Industry
From Biopolitics to Bioeconomies: The ART of (Re-) producing White Futures in Mexico's Surrogacy Market
Transnational Reproductive Mobility from Switzerland
Veronika Siegl, Christine Bigler, Tina Büchler, Laura Perler and Carolin Schurr
Abstract
Worldwide, more and more people are traveling abroad to fulfill their desire to have a child. In Switzerland, it is the relatively restrictive legal situation, especially compared to other European countries, and the high costs of reproductive procedures that encourage Swiss women to visit reproductive clinics abroad. The Swiss media often report on these new forms of transnational reproduction based on individual experiences, especially in the context of egg donation and surrogacy, but so far there are no figures on the extent of the phenomenon of transnational reproductive mobility in Switzerland. This commissioned study, conducted by the University of Bern on behalf of the Federal Office of Public Health BAG, uses quantitative social research methods to investigate how many Swiss residents traveled abroad in 2019, for what reasons, and for what reproductive procedures. The focus is on the following four procedures: in vitro fertilization (IVF), egg donation, sperm donation and surrogacy. The results are based on five different surveys addressed to physicians in Switzerland who are licensed to perform IVF procedures; reproductive medicine centers and sperm banks abroad; and selected cantonal supervisory authorities in the civil status service and Swiss consulates.
With the data collected as part of this study, information is available on 516 cases in which individuals or couples who resided in Switzerland in 2019 traveled abroad for a reproductive procedure. Most individuals were heterosexual couples (84.65%) and patients or intended parents between the ages of 35 and 44 (72.30%). By far the most frequently used procedure is egg donation, which accounted for 82.17% of all international trips and was performed mainly in Spain. The data presented in the study should be understood as an approximation of the quantitative extent of reproductive mobility. On the one hand, they are mainly based on estimates of the reproductive physicians, on the other hand, a high number of unreported cases must be assumed. However, an improvement of the data situation is central for an informed political discussion with regard to a possible change of the legal basis in Switzerland. For this purpose, reproductive medicine centers and germ cell banks in Switzerland and abroad would have to systematically keep anonymized statistics on their patients and clients and be willing to share them with scientists and authorities. Further qualitative research would also be important in order to develop a more differentiated view of the phenomenon of transnational reproductive mobility and the groups concerned and their experiences from Switzerland.
