The reproductive silk route: transnational mobility of oocytes from Europe to Brazil

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities Pub Date : 2024-03-03 DOI:10.1080/17450101.2023.2220976

Rosana Machin , Consuelo Álvarez Plaza , Marc Abraham Puig Hernández

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Abstract

Assisted human reproduction has been deterritorialised into reproductive connectivity networks capable of adapting to contradictory laws, technological development and the mobility of people, reproductive substances, knowledge and capital. We reflect on the reproductive market and the dynamic capacity of cross-border reproductive care (CBRC), thanks to oocyte vitrification for egg donation, and on the legislative gaps that favour these flows. The purpose of the present study is to show the reproductive flows of oocytes from Europe to Brazil, which seem to have erratic route changes, leaving Spain and passing through other European countries, where they are stored, before arriving in Brazil. We carried out a qualitative study, based on documentary analysis of Brazilian Ministry of Health records on oocyte importation, the EU Coding Platform (System for Tissues and Cells), 10 in-depth interviews with key informants and legislative analysis on reproductive technologies in Spain, Brazil, Slovakia and Italy. This flow of oocytes underscores the flexibility and adaptability of transnational reproductive care.

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生殖丝绸之路：卵母细胞从欧洲到巴西的跨国流动

人类辅助生殖已经非地域化，成为生殖连接网络，能够适应相互矛盾的法律、技术发展以及人员、生殖物质、知识和资本的流动。借助卵细胞玻璃化技术进行卵子捐赠，我们对生殖市场和跨境生殖护理（CBRC）的动态能力以及有利于这些流动的法律空白进行了反思。本研究的目的是展示从欧洲到巴西的卵母细胞生殖流动，这些流动的路线变化似乎并不稳定，它们离开西班牙，经过其他欧洲国家，在那里储存，然后到达巴西。我们根据对巴西卫生部关于卵细胞进口记录的文献分析、欧盟编码平台（组织和细胞系统）、对主要信息提供者的 10 次深入访谈以及对西班牙、巴西、斯洛伐克和意大利生殖技术的立法分析，开展了一项定性研究。卵母细胞的流动凸显了跨国生殖保健的灵活性和适应性。

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Mobilities Multiple-

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5.40

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期刊介绍： Mobilities examines both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public and private spaces, and the travel of material things in everyday life. Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility, present new challenges for the coordination and governance of mobilities and for the protection of mobility rights and access. This has elicited many new research methods and theories relevant for understanding the connections between diverse mobilities and immobilities.