Paper short abstract:

Surrogacy is indeed a medical technique and sometimes a commercial practice but is also a practice that establishes links between surrogate, intended parents and their child, at the edges of kinship. The data analysed were collected throughout research with 20 french intended parents.

Paper long abstract:

Surrogacy is the subject of many ethical, moral and political discussions. The important questions it raises, concerning the availability of the human body and the trade dimension of this practice in some states hide other issues that pique the curiosity of an anthropologist who is interested in kinship and definitions of the person. This communication will show that surrogacy is indeed a medical technique and sometimes a commercial practice but is also a practice that establishes links between surrogate, intended parents and their child, at the edges of kinship. The data analysed were collected throughout an ethnographic research in progress with 20 french intended parents.