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Adopted territory : transnational Korean adoptees and the politics of belonging / Eleana J. Kim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, Eleana Jean, 1971-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intercountry adoption--Korea (South).
- Intercountry adoption.
- Intercountry adoption--United States.
- Adoptees--Korea (South).
- Adoptees.
- Adoptees--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (340 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2010]
- Language Note:
- English.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- An ethnography examining the history of Korean adoption to West, the emergence of a distinctive adoptee collective identity, and adoptee returns to Korea in relation to South Korean modernity and globalization.
- Contents:
- Introduction: understanding transnational Korean adoption
- "Waifs" and "orphans" : the origins of Korean adoption
- Adoptee kinship
- Adoptee cultural citizenship
- Public intimacies and private politics
- Our adoptee, our alien : adoptees as specters of family and foreignness in global Korea
- Made in Korea : adopted Koreans and native Koreans in the motherland
- Beyond good and evil : the moral economies of children and their best interests in a global age.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed July 24, 2022)
- ISBN:
- 9786613251787
- 9780822392668
- 0822392666
- 9781283251785
- 1283251787
- OCLC:
- 1139367381
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