‘I didn’t come here to get rich’: new research on the lives of Ukrainian women in Georgia’s surrogacy boom

Jonas Gratzer LightRocket via Getty Images “I didn t come here to get rich. I came because I had no other way to keep my son safe and care for my displaced family”. Anna is a 28 year old woman from eastern Ukraine. She fled the country in 2023 after Russian troops invaded. Two years later, she agreed to become a surrogate in Georgia for wealthy foreign couples. We met Anna, who was already pregnant, in a quiet apartment that had been rented for her by a surrogacy agency on the outskirts of the