Meeting Once More : The Korean Side of Transnational Adoption / Elise M. Prébin.
Prébin, Elise M., author.
2013
HV875.58.K6 P74 2016
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Title
Meeting Once More : The Korean Side of Transnational Adoption / Elise M. Prébin.
Author
Prébin, Elise M., author.
ISBN
9780814764961
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814760260.001.0001
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814760260.001.0001 doi
Call Number
HV875.58.K6 P74 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.734095195
Summary
A greatmobilization began in South Korea in the 1990s: adult transnational adopteesbegan to return to their birth country and meet for the first time with theirbirth parents-sometimes in televised encounters which garnered high ratings. What makes the case of South Korea remarkable is the sheerscale of the activity that has taken place around the adult adoptees' return,and by extension the national significance that has been accorded to thesefamily meetings.Informed by theauthor's own experience as an adoptee and two years of ethnographic research inSeoul, as well as an analysis of the popular television program "I Want toSee This Person Again," which reunites families, Meeting Once Moresheds light on an understudied aspect of transnational adoption: the impact ofadoptees on their birth country, and especially on their birth families. Thevolume offers a complex and fascinating contribution to the study of newkinship models, migration, and the anthropology of media, as well as to thestudy of South Korea.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Meeting the Birth Country
1. Shift in South Korean Policies toward Korean Adoptees (1954-Today)
2. Everyday Encounters
3. Holt International Summer School or Three-Week Re-Koreanization (1999-2004)
4. Stratification and Homogeneity at the Korean Broadcasting System (2003)
5. National Reunification and Family Meetings
Part II: Meeting the Birth Family
6. Stories behind History
7. Meetings' Aftermaths
8. Evolving Relationship with My Birth Family
9. Management of Feelings
10. Meeting the Lost and the Dead
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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