ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the power relations that are reflected in the transnationalisation of third-party conception: the transnational flows of gametes, embryos and reproductive bodies, as well as the increasing phenomenon of cross-border reproductive care, often reflect wider relations of power. It offers a wide range of examples of how they play out in relation to issues such as kinship, identity, consumption and citizenship in the context of third-party reproduction. The book demonstrates some of the complex issues that third-party reproduction in a globalised world gives rise to. It shows, issues concerning kinship and identity, questions concerning the marketisation of fertility treatment and the global trade of reproductive labour and tissues and concerns around law and regulation do indeed overlap to a great extent. And they are all, in one way or another, related to various configurations of power.
