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"Standing in line at the maternity ward of the Sanatorio Finochietto hospital
in bustling Buenos Aires, Polina Cherepovitskaya suddenly overheard the
familiar sound of the Russian language.
“It was crazy, there were at least eight pregnant Russian women waiting in
front of me,” Cherepovitskaya, a jewellery designer previously based in Moscow,
said in a phone interview.
Cherepovitskaya, who gave birth last December, is one of the estimated hundreds
of Russian women who travelled last year to the Argentinian capital to give
birth.
Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the South American country has
experienced a boom in Russian birth tourism – the practice of travelling to
another country for the purpose of giving birth and obtaining citizenship for
the child.
While the concept of birth tourism isn’t new, Moscow’s isolation from the west
as a result of the war has made Argentina, where Russians face no visa
requirements, the go-to destination for families looking to give their children
the privileges of second citizenship. Vladimir Putin’s call-up of hundreds of
thousands of military reservists may have added to the trend.
Georgy Polin, head of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in
Argentina, estimated that between 2,000 and 2,500 Russians moved to Argentina
in 2022, many of whom, he said, were Russian women planning to give birth in
the country. “In 2023 year, that number can grow to 10,000,” Polin said."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
