Cultures of transnational adoption / edited by Toby Alice Volkman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Volkman, Toby Alice, 1948-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercountry adoption.

Cognition and culture.

Kinship.

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the 1990s, the number of children adopted from poorer countries to the more affluent West grew exponentially. Close to 140,000 transnational adoptions occurred in the United States alone. While in an earlier era, adoption across borders was assumed to be straightforward-a child traveled to a new country and stayed there-by the late twentieth century, adoptees were expected to acquaint themselves with the countries of their birth and explore their multiple identities. Listservs, Web sites, and organizations creating international communities of adoptive parents and adoptees proliferated.

Contents:

Introduction: New geographies of kinship / Toby Alice Volkman

Part I. Displacements, roots, identities. Going "home": adoption, loss of bearings, and the mythology of roots / Barbara Yngvesson

Wedding citizenship and culture: Korean adoptees and the global family of Korea / Eleana Kim

Embodying Chinese culture: transnational adoption in North America / Toby Alice Volkman

Part II. Counterparts. Chaobao: the plight of Chinese adoptive parents in the era of the one-child policy / Kay Johnson

Patterns of shared parenthood among the Brazilian poor / Claudia Fonseca

Birth mothers and imaginary lives / Laurel Kendall

Part III. Representations. Images of "waiting children": spectatorship and pity in the representation of the global social orphan in the 1990s / Lisa Cartwright

Phantom lives, narratives of possibility / Elizabeth Alice Honig.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8223-8692-5

OCLC:

317321943