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Adoptive migration : raising Latinos in Spain / Jessaca B. Leinaweaver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leinaweaver, Jessaca B.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intercountry adoption--Spain.
- Intercountry adoption.
- Intercountry adoption--Peru.
- Spain--Emigration and immigration.
- Spain.
- Peru--Emigration and immigration.
- Peru.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focused on Peruvian adoptees and immigrants in Spain, this ethnography explores the adopted children's experience of growing up in a country that discriminates against their fellow immigrants.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Comparing adoption and migration
- Waiting for a baby : adopting the ideal immigrant
- The best interests of a migrant's child : separating families or displacing children?
- Mixed marriages : migrants and adoption
- Undomesticated adoption : adopting the children of immigrants
- Solidarity : postadoptive overtures
- Becoming and unbecoming Peruvian : culture, ethnicity, and race
- Conclusion: What adoptive migration might mean.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p [179]-192) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822355076
- 0822355078
- 9780822377511
- 0822377519
- OCLC:
- 1129963427
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