Adoption and multiculturalism : Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific / Jenny Heijun Wills, Tobias Hübinette, and Indigo Willing, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wills, Jenny Heijun, editor.

Hübinette, Tobias, 1971- editor.

Willing, Indigo A.W., 1971- editor.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercountry adoption.

Interracial adoption.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2020]

Summary:

Adoption and Multiculturalism features the voices of international scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble common understandings about who is being adopted, who is adopting, and where these acts are taking place, challenging in fascinating ways the tidy master narrative of saviorhood and the concept of a monolithic Western receiving nation. Too often the presumption is that the adoptive and receiving country is one that celebrates racial and ethnic diversity, thus making it superior to the conservative and insular places from which adoptees arrive. The volume's contributors subvert the often simplistic ways that multiculturalism is linked to transnational and transracial adoption and reveal how troubling multiculturalism in fact can be. The contributors represent a wide range of disciplines, cultures, and connections in relation to the adoption constellation, bringing perspectives from Europe (including Scandinavia), Canada, the United States, and Australia. The book brings together the various methodologies of literary criticism, history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural theory to demonstrate the multifarious and robust ways that adoption and multiculturalism might be studied and considered. Edited by three transnational and transracial adoptees, Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific offers bold new scholarship that revises popular notions of transracial and transnational adoption as practice and phenomenon.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section 1. Negotiating Everyday, Familial, and National Multiculturalism

Embodying Multiple Selves: Korean Australian Adoptees' Experiences of Being and Belonging | Jessica Walton

Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Racialized Belongings: A Study of Transnationally Adoptive Parents in Multicultural Australia | Indigo Willing, Patricia Fronek, and Zlatko Skrbiš

Reunions with Siblings in Search Memoirs across Cultures | Margaret Homans

Section 2. Interrupting Myths of Postraciality and Autochthony

Shared and Divergent Landscapes of Transnational Adoption Politics and Critique: Newspaper Reporting and Transnational Adoptee Interventions in Denmark and Minnesota | Kim Park Nelson and Lene Myong

Civilizing Missions and Mimicry in Sweden's Colonial Present: Exploring the Construction of the Transnational/-racial Adoptee as a Mimic Swede | Richey Wyver

From Adoptee to Trespasser: The Female Asian Adoptee as Oriental Fantasy | Kimberly McKee

Section 3. Exposing Discrepancies: Racial Purity in the "Multicultural Adoptive Land"

Black and White Strangers: Adoption and Ethnic Hierarchies in Finland | Riitta Högbacka and Heidi Ruohio

Black Identity-Making in Flanders: Discourses and Cultural Practices among Transracial Adoptive Families and Black Native Speakers of Flemish | Katrien De Graeve and Sibo Kanobana

Transnational Adoption and the Emergence of Sweden's Progressive Reproduction Policy: A Contribution to the Biopolitical History of Sweden | Tobias Hübinette

How to "Kin" the Transnational Adoptee in the Québécois Nationalist Family Romance? | Jenny Heijun Wills and Bruno Cornellier

Coda

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-472-12681-4

OCLC:

1152398124