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Panel #071 Reproductive Aspirations and Trajectories within Movement/Settle= ment across Borders

Reproductive mobilities, largely from medical anthropology, have raised imp= ortant questions about mobility and reproduction under conditions of global= ization and simultaneous interconnectedness and displacement. Mobile fertil= ity clients crossing international borders have been predominant reproducti= ve actors within this terrain but many others are involved in cross-border = movement to fulfill reproductive desires and resolve reproductive disappoin= tments (Bennet & DeKok 2017), beyond ARTs and surrogacy. We aim to bring th= e anthropological analytics of mobilities - what mobility means to people, = how mobility is practiced and embodied, its affective as well as moral and = political dimensions=97to bear on contours of reproduction-in-motion, movin= g beyond an emphasis on markets and flows. We are interested in ethnographi= c accounts of "reproductive aspirations" and "reproductive trajectories" an= d how they are entangled in and complicated by a variety of mobilities, suc= h as reproductive tourism, abortion seekers, migrant motherhood, for exampl= e=97reproductive mobilities that might involve simultaneous movement and se= ttling in rather than an over-privileging of movement. How does border cros= sing affect those terminating a pregnancy or seeking conception in "low tec= h" ways? How are newcomers' aspirations to raise children as "proper" repro= ductive actors generated or thwarted in settlement? We invite papers that e= xplore a range and diversity of experiences of pregnancies, parenting, adop= tion, abortion, fertility and other facets of reproduction for women, men, = or transgender people living as reproductive actors whose aspirations for p= articular outcomes are shaped by the limits and the potentialities of borde= rs and movement/settlement across and within borders.

Please contact Susan Frohlick (susan.frohlick@ubc.ca) or Paula Migliardi (p= aula.migliardi@umanitoba.ca) with any questions about the panel.

To submit an abstract, please go to the conference website and panel page, = link below: https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/= 6427

Paper proposals must consist of: a paper title; the name/s and email addres= s/es of author/s; a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters; a long abs= tract of fewer than 250 words.

All proposals must be made via the online form, not by email. The deadline = for abstract submissions is April 9, 2018.

Susan Frohlick, Anthropology and Gender Studies, University of British Colu= mbia, Okanagan

Paula Migliardi, PhD candidate, Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Canad= a