Transnational Adoption : A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship / Sara K. Dorow.
Dorow, Sara K., author.
2006
HV875.58.C6 D67 2006
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Title Transnational Adoption : A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship / Sara K. Dorow.
Author Dorow, Sara K., author.
ISBN 9780814785485
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814785485.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2006]
Copyright ©2006
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9780814785485.001.0001 doi
Call Number HV875.58.C6 D67 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.7340951
Summary Each year, thousands of Chinese children, primarily abandoned infant girls, are adopted by Americans. Yet we know very little about the local and transnational processes that characterize this new migration.Transnational Adoption is a unique ethnographic study of China/U.S. adoption, the largest contemporary intercountry adoption program. Sara K. Dorow begins by situating the popularity of the China/U.S. adoption process within a broader history of immigration and adoption. She then follows the path of the adoption process: the institutions and bureaucracies in both China and the United States that prepare children and parents for each other; the stories and practices that legitimate them coming together as transnational families; the strains placed upon our common notions of what motherhood means; and ways in which parents then construct the cultural and racial identities of adopted children.Based on rich ethnographic evidence, including interviews with and observation of people on both sides of the Pacific-from orphanages, government officials, and adoption agencies to advocacy groups and adoptive families themselves-this is a fascinating look at the latest chapter in Chinese-American migration.
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Series Nation of Nations ; ; 9
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Why China?
2. Matches Made on Earth
3. Picturing Kinship
4. Client, Ambassador, and Gift
5. Shamian Island
6. Storied Origins
7. American Ghosts
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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