Babies without borders : adoption and migration across the Americas / Karen Dubinsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dubinsky, Karen.

Series:

Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercountry adoption--America.

Intercountry adoption.

Interracial adoption--America.

Interracial adoption.

America.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2010 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2011).

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

International adoptions are both high-profile and controversial, with the celebrity adoptions and critically acclaimed movies such as Casa de los babys of recent years increasing media coverage and influencing public opinion. Neither celebrating nor condemning cross-cultural adoption, Karen Dubinsky considers the political symbolism of children in her examination of adoption and migration controversies in North America, Cuba, and Guatemala.Babies Without Borders tells the interrelated stories of Cuban children caught in Operation Peter Pan, adopted Black and Native American children who became icons in the Sixties, and Guatemalan children whose 'disappearance' today in transnational adoption networks echoes their fate during the country's brutal civil war. Drawing from extensive research as well as from her critical observations as an adoptive parent, Karen Dubinsky aims to move adoption debates beyond the current dichotomy of 'imperialist kidnap' versus 'humanitarian rescue.' Integrating the personal with the scholarly, Babies Without Borders exposes what happens when children bear the weight of adult political conflicts.

Contents:

Children and the stories we tell about them

The national baby: creating monumental children in Cuba, from Operation Peter Pan to Elián Gonzálex

The hybrid baby: domestic interracial adoption since the 1950s

The missing baby: transnational adoption and the vanishing children of Guatemala

Conclusion: Setting the agenda for a happy childhood.

Notes:

Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442686120

144268612X

OCLC:

958559127