Multiple mobilities in Mexico’s fertility industry

Schurr, Carolin (2018). Multiple mobilities in Mexico’s fertility industry. Mobilities, 14(1), pp. 103-119. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 10.1080/17450101.2019.1522881

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How can we conceptualize travel in search of fertility treatment? While current research on transnational reproduction mostly conceptualizes mobility as horizontal movement from A to B, this article shows how horizontal mobilities converge, contradict, and are interdependent with other forms of mobility; namely vertical mobilities in terms of social upward and downward mobility, representational mobilities in form of imaginative geographies, and the actual embodied experiences of mobility. Based on ethnographic research on the reproductive tourism industry in Mexico, the article explores the multiplicity of mobilities that constitute transnational reproduction. The article evaluates how the concept of multiple mobilities contributes to the study of medical tourism from a critical mobilities’ perspective.

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