Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Case Study of Traveling Abroad to Access Reproductive Technologies

该项目调查了土耳其公民在体外受精前使用植入前遗传学诊断选择后代性别的问题。公民前往北方塞浦路斯办理这些手续，在土耳其是非法的。拟议的研究将使用多地点民族志来探索家庭是否正在利用性别选择技术来实现传统的儿子偏好标准，或更现代的平衡家庭。因此，这项研究探讨了道德多元化存在的程度，这意味着在多大程度上存在着多种价值观，这些价值观本质上是同样重要的，但相互冲突。这些伦理问题将位于一个更大的社会政治背景下，穆斯林占多数的世俗国家的地中海。这项研究的结果将被传播到一个广泛的公众使用一个开源的数字存储平台，以及专业期刊和会议在英语和Turkish.Technical摘要这项研究的土耳其跨境植入前基因诊断的非治疗性性别选择要求生殖技术，跨/民族主义，家庭决策，生物伦理学和性别的社会分析。它集中在两个中心的社会科学问题。其中一个问题是土耳其公民如何理解、利用性别选择并使其在道德上成为一种适当的生殖方式。另一个问题是，这些道德谈判揭示了当代土耳其性别和家庭意识形态的紧张关系或转变。拟议的研究将有助于对生殖技术的女权主义研究，这些研究由科学技术研究、人类学中新兴的生殖旅游奖学金以及土耳其性别、家庭和民族主义的民族志提供信息，考虑与全球技术流动相关的跨民族主义和人口流动以及国家带来的限制。

General Audience Summary This project investigates the quest of Turkish citizens to select offspring gender prior to in vitro fertilization using pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. Citizens travel to Northern Cyprus for these procedures, which are illegal in Turkey. The proposed research will use a multi-sited ethnography to explore whether families are utilizing gender selection technology to achieve traditional son preference standards, or more modern, balanced families. As such, the research explores the extent to which moral pluralism is present, meaning the extent to which there are multiple values essentially involved that are equally fundamental, yet conflict with one another. These ethical issues will be situated within a larger socio-political context, Muslim-majority secular countries of the Mediterranean. The results of this research will be disseminated to a broad a public using an open source digital repository platform, as well as to professional journals and conferences in both English and Turkish.Technical Summary This study of Turkish cross-border pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for non-therapeutic gender selection calls for the social analysis of reproductive technology, trans/nationalism, family making, bio-ethics, and gender. It focuses on two central social-scientific questions. One concerns how gender selection is understood, utilized and made morally appropriate by Turkish citizens as a mode of reproduction. The other concerns what tensions or transformations in contemporary Turkish ideologies of gender and family are revealed by these moral negotiations. The proposed research will contribute to feminist studies of reproductive technologies informed by Science and Technology Studies, the emerging scholarship on reproductive tourism in anthropology and the ethnography of gender, family and nationalism in Turkey, considering trans-nationalism in relation to global flows of technology and people as well as constraints posed by the state.