Undercover Investigation into Chinese Agencies Promoting U.S. Birth Tourism
Law and Border | Today, the Chinese financial news website Yicai.com published a story about its undercover investigation into shady Chinese agencies that promote US birth tourism.
These agencies guide expectant mothers in getting US visitors’ visas on false pretenses, while hiding their pregnancies. According to Yicai.com, the agencies also operate unlicensed “postpartum care centers” in residential US neighborhoods, where the women are stashed for four months while waiting to give birth and then to recuperate. These centers are a twenty-first century twist on the Chinese tradition of yuezi, during which a new Chinese mother confines herself to home to recover for a month after delivery.
Several centers have been shut down in response to complaints of zoning violations and are operating without a license, according to Yicai.com.
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