Cultures of transnational adoption
During the 1990s, the number of children adopted from poorer countries to the more affluent West grew exponentially. Close to 140,000 transnational adoptions occurred in the United States alone. While in an earlier era, adoption across borders was assumed to be straightforward-a child traveled to a...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press
2005.
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| Colección: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: New geographies of kinship / Toby Alice Volkman
- Part I. Displacements, roots, identities. Going "home": adoption, loss of bearings, and the mythology of roots / Barbara Yngvesson
- Wedding citizenship and culture: Korean adoptees and the global family of Korea / Eleana Kim
- Embodying Chinese culture: transnational adoption in North America / Toby Alice Volkman
- Part II. Counterparts. Chaobao: the plight of Chinese adoptive parents in the era of the one-child policy / Kay Johnson
- Patterns of shared parenthood among the Brazilian poor / Claudia Fonseca
- Birth mothers and imaginary lives / Laurel Kendall
- Part III. Representations. Images of "waiting children": spectatorship and pity in the representation of the global social orphan in the 1990s / Lisa Cartwright
- Phantom lives, narratives of possibility / Elizabeth Alice Honig.
