From Intercountry Adoption to Global Surrogacy: A Human Rights History and New Fertility Frontiers tackles the constantly changing landscape of intercountry adoption. Extracting on chronologic data, this book discusses the politics and practice of intercountry adoption starting with the state of international adoption to in the 1950s continuing to present-day adoption practice and protections. Chapters include: 1) Rescue, refugees, orphans and restitution; 2) The politics of adoption from Romania to Russia and what we know about children languishing in residential care facilities; 3) Poverty, birth families, legal, and social protection 4) Guatemala: violence against women and force, fraud, and coercion, including child abduction into adoption and a new system emerging; 5) Child-protection systems of care to ensure child rights in family support and adoption: India and the United States; 6) Sins of saviors: Africa as the final frontier; 7) From intercountry adoption to commercial global surrogacy; 8) Voices of US surrogates: a content analysis of blogs by US gestational surrogates; 9) Perspectives of Indian women who have completed a global surrogacy contract With Lopamudra Goswami; 10) The future of intercountry adoption, global surrogacy and new frontiers.
