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Adoption, memory, and Cold War Greece : kid pro quo? / Gonda Van Steen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Steen, Gonda Aline Hector, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orphans--Greece--History--20th century.
- Orphans.
- Intercountry adoption--Greece--History--20th century.
- Intercountry adoption.
- Intercountry adoption--United States--History--20th century.
- Greece--History--Civil War, 1944-1949--Children.
- Greece.
- Greece--History--Civil War, 1944-1949--Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 323 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- This book presents a committed quest to unravel and document the postwar adoption networks that placed more than 3,000 Greek children in the United States, in a movement accelerated by the aftermath of the Greek Civil War and by the new conditions of the global Cold War. Greek-to-American adoptions and, regrettably, also their transactions and transgressions, provided the blueprint for the first large-scale international adoptions, well before these became a mass phenomenon typically associated with Asian children. The story of these Greek postwar and Cold War adoptions, whose procedures ranged from legal to highly irregular, has never been told or analyzed before. Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece answers the important questions: How did these adoptions from Greece happen? Was there any money involved? Humanitarian rescue or kid pro quo? Or both? With sympathy and perseverance, Gonda Van Steen has filled a decades-long gap in our understanding, also for the hundreds of adoptees and their descendants, whose lives are still affected today.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Quests
- Part 1: The Past That Has Not Passed
- Part 2: Nation of Orphans, Orphaned Nation
- Part 3: Insights from Greek Adoption Cases
- Conclusion: Greek and Greece, Where Home and History Rhyme.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780472126064
- 0472126067
- OCLC:
- 1114308553
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