International Adoption : Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children / Laura Briggs; ed. by Diana Marre.
Briggs, Laura, author.; Abreu, Domingos, contributor.; Briggs, Laura, contributor.; Cadoret, Anne, contributor.; Collard, Chantal, contributor.; Fonseca, Claudia, contributor.; Gross, Martine, contributor.; Howell, Signe, contributor.; Khabibullina, Lilia, contributor.; Legrand, Caroline, contributor.; Leinaweaver, Jessaca B., contributor.; Marre, Diana, contributor.; Marre, Diana, editor.; Ouellette, Françoise-Romaine, contributor.; Schachter, Judith, contributor.; Selman, Peter, contributor.; Volkman, Toby Alice, contributor.; Yngvesson, Barbara, contributor.; Čepaitienė, Auksuolė, contributor.
2009
HV875.5 .I573 2016
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Title International Adoption : Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children / Laura Briggs; ed. by Diana Marre.
Author Briggs, Laura, author.
ISBN 9780814764473
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814791011.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9780814791011.001.0001 doi
Call Number HV875.5 .I573 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.734
Summary In the past two decades, transnational adoption has exploded in scope and significance, growing up along increasingly globalized economic relations and the development and improvement of reproductive technologies. A complex and understudied system, transnational adoption opens a window onto the relations between nations, the inequalities of the rich and the poor, and the history of race and racialization, Transnational adoption has been marked by the geographies of unequal power, as children move from poorer countries and families to wealthier ones, yet little work has been done to synthesize its complex and sometimes contradictory effects.Rather than focusing only on the United States, as much previous work on the topic does, International Adoption considers the perspectives of a number of sending countries as well as other receiving countries, particularly in Europe. The book also reminds us that the U.S. also sends children into international adoptions-particularly children of color. The book thus complicates the standard scholarly treatment of the subject, which tends to focus on the tensions between those who argue that transnational adoption is an outgrowth of American wealth, power, and military might (as well as a rejection of adoption from domestic foster care) and those who maintain that it is about a desire to help children in need.
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Added Author Abreu, Domingos, contributor.
Briggs, Laura, contributor.
Cadoret, Anne, contributor.
Collard, Chantal, contributor.
Fonseca, Claudia, contributor.
Gross, Martine, contributor.
Howell, Signe, contributor.
Khabibullina, Lilia, contributor.
Legrand, Caroline, contributor.
Leinaweaver, Jessaca B., contributor.
Marre, Diana, contributor.
Marre, Diana, editor.
Ouellette, Françoise-Romaine, contributor.
Schachter, Judith, contributor.
Selman, Peter, contributor.
Volkman, Toby Alice, contributor.
Yngvesson, Barbara, contributor.
Čepaitienė, Auksuolė, contributor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I Defining Reproduction
1 The Movement of Children for International Adoption
2 International Adoption: Lessons from Hawai'i
3 The Social Temporalities of Adoption and the Limits of Plenary Adoption
4 The Desire for Parenthood among Lesbians and Gay Men
5 Refiguring Kinship in the Space of Adoption
6 The Transnational Adoption of a Related Child in Québec, Canada
PART II Perspectives from Sending Countries
7 Baby-Bearing Storks
8 Transnational Connections and Dissenting Views
9 International Adoption in Russia
10 The Medicalization of Adoption in and from Peru
11 Children, Individuality, Family
PART III Experiences in Receiving Countries
12 "We Do Not Have Immigrant Children at Th is School, We Just Have Children Adopted from Abroad"
13 Routes to the Roots
14 Return Journeys and the Search for Roots
15 Mothers for Others
16 Seeking Sisters
About the Contributors
Index

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