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The Best Possible Immigrants : International Adoption and the American Family / Rachel Rains Winslow.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winslow, Rachel Rains, author.
- Series:
- Politics and culture in modern America.
- Politics and Culture in Modern America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intercountry adoption--United States--History--20th century.
- Intercountry adoption.
- Interracial adoption--United States--History--20th century.
- Interracial adoption.
- Intercountry adoption--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Rachel Rains Winslow examines how the adoption of foreign children transformed from a marginal activity in response to episodic crises in the 1940s to an enduring American institution by the 1970s. She provides the first historical examination of the people, policies, and systems that made the United States an enduring ""adoption nation.""
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction. The Interest of Many: The Foundations of International Adoption
- Chapter 1. "Babyselling Rings," "Adoption Mills," and "Baby Rackets": Formalizing Policies and Manufacturing Markets
- Chapter 2. "An International Baby Hunt": The "Gray Market" in Greece
- Chapter 3. "The Great Heart of America": Volunteer Humanitarians and Korean Adoptions
- Chapter 4. Coming Out of the Shadows: Adoptive Parents as Public Figures
- Chapter 5. A New Kind of Racial Alchemy: International Development, Transracial Adoption, and the Vietnam War
- Chapter 6. "Children of Controversy": Operation Babylift and the Crisis of Humanitarianism
- Epilogue. The Legacy of Voluntarism: International Adoption in the Twenty-First Century
- Appendix. Selected Immigration Legislation and Refugee Action Chronology, 1945-1976
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jun 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9780812293968
- 0812293967
- OCLC:
- 982452614
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