International adoption : global inequalities and the circulation of children / edited by Diana Marre and Laura Briggs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Briggs, Laura, Author.

Contributor:

Marre, Diana.

Briggs, Laura, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercountry adoption.

Adoption.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the past two decades, transnational adoption has exploded in scope and significance, growing up along increasingly globalized economic relations and the development and improvement of reproductive technologies. A complex and understudied system, transnational adoption opens a window onto the relations between nations, the inequalities of the rich and the poor, and the history of race and racialization, Transnational adoption has been marked by the geographies of unequal power, as children move from poorer countries and families to wealthier ones, yet little work has been done to synthesize its complex and sometimes contradictory effects.Rather than focusing only on the United States, as much previous work on the topic does, International Adoption considers the perspectives of a number of sending countries as well as other receiving countries, particularly in Europe. The book also reminds us that the U.S. also sends children into international adoptions—particularly children of color. The book thus complicates the standard scholarly treatment of the subject, which tends to focus on the tensions between those who argue that transnational adoption is an outgrowth of American wealth, power, and military might (as well as a rejection of adoption from domestic foster care) and those who maintain that it is about a desire to help children in need.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Movement of Children for International Adoption

2 International Adoption: Lessons from Hawai’i

3 The Social Temporalities of Adoption and the Limits of Plenary Adoption

4 The Desire for Parenthood among Lesbians and Gay Men

5 Refiguring Kinship in the Space of Adoption

6 The Transnational Adoption of a Related Child in Québec, Canada

7 Baby-Bearing Storks

8 Transnational Connections and Dissenting Views

9 International Adoption in Russia

10 The Medicalization of Adoption in and from Peru

11 Children, Individuality, Family

12 “We Do Not Have Immigrant Children at Th is School, We Just Have Children Adopted from Abroad”

13 Routes to the Roots

14 Return Journeys and the Search for Roots

15 Mothers for Others

16 Seeking Sisters

About the Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814764473

0814764479

9780814795903

0814795900

9781441615732

1441615733

OCLC:

779828234