Migrazioni e fertilità: il ricorso alla PMA fra le donne migranti latinoamericane nella città di Genova

This work focuses on the reproductive trajectories of Ecuadorian and Peruvian women living in the city of Genoa. Particular attention is paid to the experiences of infertility and medically assisted procreation. The purpose of this work is to highlight the complexity and heterogeneity of the reproductive practices implemented by migrant women, starting from transdisciplinary theoretical perspectives and through ethnographic investigation. A central element of this elaborate regards the concept of "natural" reproduction, widespread in current discourses and policies on fertility and the family, as a sustained dominant ideology of demography, biomedicine. The procreative experiences of migrant women are useful to highlight the disparities and stratifications present in the reproductive field in opposition to the naturalization of the processes of maternity. I focus on the perceptions and representations of motherhood, developed by health professionals dealing with reproductive health in public hospitals, consultants and fertility clinics, in comparison with those of Latin American users, to highlight the asymmetry of the patient in medical relationships. The interpretations and representations of the disease, the world, the sense of self and of others, embodied by doctors and patients, influence significantly the PMA experience and the therapeutic process outcome. My purpose is to analyze how the mutual relationship between different cultural norms and moral horizons affects the reproductive behaviors and the tactics acted on by the subjects to adapting or resisting to the dominated representations of reproduction and identity, created in the transnational context.