Citizenship After Surrogacy

Name: Citizenship After Surrogacy
Brand: Manchester University Press
SKU: 9781526183514
Price: 1130.50 HKD
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Author: Katie Tonkiss
ISBN: 9781526183514

By Katie Tonkiss

Coming Soon Manchester University Press Available October 2026

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781526183514
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication: October 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Differences in how states regulate surrogacy underpin an international market through which 'intended parents' commission a surrogate in another country to have a baby for them. The babies born through these arrangements often enter a legal grey area where their right to citizenship is contested. In this book, Katie Tonkiss examines the acquisition of citizenship after surrogacy, and in so doing addresses fundamental questions about the relationship between kinship, bordering, and what it terms the 'institutionalised disorder' of citizenship in an age of assisted reproduction. By engaging with case studies, legal analyses and original research with affected families in Europe and North America, the book subjects to critical scrutiny the heteronormative ideals which continue to shape the recognition of legal identity at birth. In so doing, the book conceptualises the weaponisation of citizenship in the policing of what counts as 'legitimate' family life.

Introduction

1. Citizenship, birth and belonging

2. International surrogacy and weaponised citizenship

3. Biology and belonging

4. Homonormative citizenship

5. Transgressing exclusion

6. Surrogacy as resistance

Concluding reflections

Legal sources

Bibliography

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