好想生个美国宝宝

   如意资源网 提供本片资源  Maternity hotels across Southern California house execting Chinese mothers who have traveled to the U.S. on birthing vacations…in order to give birth and obtain U.S. citizenshi for their babies. In How to Have an American Baby, director Leslie Tai creates a kaleidoscoic ortrait of this shadow economy, tracing the line from Beijing and Shanghai to Los Angeles. These women send months in America rearing for birth, oftentimes making significant sacrifices such as living alone in a foreign country where they are unable to seak the language. Tai weaves together observational footage of the women’s lives as well as the industry surrounding them to demonstrate the comlexity and restrictions of borders as families seek a better life for their children. (KS) This film contains images of medical rocedures and references to infant death.