Belonging in an adopted world : race, identity, and transnational adoption / Barbara Yngvesson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yngvesson, Barbara, Author.

Contributor:

Yngvesson, Barbara, 1941-

Series:

Chicago series in law and society.

The Chicago series in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercountry adoption.

Interracial adoption.

Interethnic adoption.

Intercountry adoption--Law and legislation.

Intercountry adoption--Sweden.

Intercountry adoption--India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the early 1990's, 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. Starting from the transformation of the abandoned child into an adoptable resource for nations that give and receive children in adoption, this volume examines the ramifications of such gifts, especially for families created through adoption and later, the adopted adults themselves. Bolstered by an account of the author's own experience as an adoptive parent, and fully attuned to the contradictions of race that shape our complex forms of family, Belonging in an Adopted World explores the fictions that sustain adoptive kinship, ultimately exposing the vulnerability and contingency behind all human identity.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612646546

9780226964485

0226964485

9781282646544

1282646540

OCLC:

646068369