The Changing Rights to Family Life in Australia: Biomedicine and Legal Governance in Globalisation

本项目通过对法律的程序进行文化研究，调查全球化和生物医学对家庭构成的影响。它比较了两个对比和目前有争议的情况下，在澳大利亚（跨国代孕安排和家庭团聚的移民），研究父母的生物医学化，在边境政治和法律的转变中的作用生殖在管理“家庭生活”。这项研究将超越对人权的批评，分析法律的学说中的理由，并探讨科学、资本主义和人道主义如何影响家庭的意义。

This project investigates the impact of globalisation and biomedicine on the constitution of family through a cultural study of legal processes. It compares two contrasting and currently contested cases in Australia (transnational surrogacy arrangements and family reunification in immigration) to study the biomedicalisation of parenthood, the role of reproduction in border politics and legal transformations in governing 'family life'. The research will move beyond a critique of human rights, analysing justifications within legal doctrines, and exploring how the meaning of family is affected by science, capitalism and humanitarianism.