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This brilliant study demonstrates how international surrogacy practices challenge the prevailing heteronormative ‘citizenship-as-inheritance’ regimes which institutionalise the biological imaginary of family against diverse and alternative kinship relations.
– Engin Isin, Queen Mary University of London
International surrogacy arrangements call into question the relationship between kinship, borders and citizenship. Katie Tonkiss’s Citizenship after Surrogacy provides a timely and compelling account of how states grapple with the legal and ethical dilemmas posed by assisted reproduction across borders, and how affected families in Europe and North America navigate bureaucratic complexity. Essential reading for scholars of citizenship, family, migration and reproductive politics.
– Maarten Vink, Chair in Citizenship Studies, European University Institute
By studying the contradictions of citizenship, Katie Tonkiss exposes the flawed assumptions we rely on to determine political membership and legal status. This book highlights how narrow, often heteronormative concepts of family determine who accesses citizenship at birth – and who is excluded from communities that desperately want them. This powerful work is required reading for citizenship theorists, policymakers grappling with reproductive technologies, and anyone concerned with the fundamental rights of children.
– Lindsey N. Kingston, Professor of Human Rights at Webster University
In Citizenship After Surrogacy, Katie Tonkiss provides a rigorous methodical analysis of citizenship attribution at birth as a longstanding form of weaponised regulation of kinship, which is now increasingly destabilised by international surrogacy, and transgressive forms of caregiving. The book is a compelling critique of the perverse ways in which states reproduce themselves at the cost of human reproductive and caregiving choices.
– Katja Swider, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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