Belonging in an adopted world: race, identity, and transnational adoption
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2010
Series:Chicago series in law and society
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Acknowledgments -- A Letter -- Prologue -- 1. The Safehouse of Identity -- 2. The Only Thing We Can Give Away Is Children -- 3. National Resources -- 4. A Child of Any Color -- 5. Early Disturbances -- 6. The Body within the Body -- 7. Return -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index
Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. In Belonging in an Adopted World, Barbara Yngvesson offers a penetrating exploration of the consequences and implications of this unprecedented movement of children, usually from poor nations to the affluent West. Yngvesson illuminates how the politics of adoption policy has profoundly affected the families, nations, and children involved in this new form of social and economic migration
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 246 pages)
ISBN:0226964485
9780226964485

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