Disrupting kinship : transnational politics of Korean adoption in the United States / Kimberly D. McKee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKee, Kimberly (Kimberly D.), Author.

Series:

Asian American experience.

Illinois scholarship online.

The Asian American experience

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interracial adoption--United States.

Interracial adoption.

Interracial adoption--Korea (South).

Intercountry adoption--United States.

Intercountry adoption.

Intercountry adoption--Korea (South).

Adoptees--United States.

Adoptees.

Korean Americans--Ethnic identity.

Korean Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 pages).

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2019.

Summary:

Interacting with Cold War ideology, individuals' Christian Americanism supported the notion that Korean adoptees would enter 'good homes' in a democratic society. Many children felt the brunt of this rhetoric as they were told adoption was in their 'best interests' and that if not adoption, they would have fallen through the cracks of economic poverty and degradation in the land of their birth. In doing so, rhetorics of gratitude became cemented in international adoption discourse. This text exposes the growth of the transnational adoption industrial complex (TAIC) - the neo-colonial, multi-million dollar global industry that commodifies children's bodies - in an examination of South Korean adoptions to the United States.

Contents:

Generating a market in children

(Un)documented citizens, (un)naturalized Americans

The (re)production of family

Rewriting the adoptee experience

Adoption in practice: adult adoptee reflections

Adoptees strike back: who are you calling angry?

Conclusion: considering the future of international adoption

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 6, 2019).

Also issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

9780252051128

0252051122