Global Families : A History of Asian International Adoption in America / Catherine Ceniza Choy.
2013
HV875.5 .C47 2016
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Title
Global Families : A History of Asian International Adoption in America / Catherine Ceniza Choy.
ISBN
9781479886388
Published
New York, NY : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource : 17 black and white illustrations
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10.18574/9781479886388 doi
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HV875.5 .C47 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.734
Summary
In the last fifty years, transnational adoption-specifically, the adoption of Asian children-has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian international adoption to flourish. In Global Families, Catherine Ceniza Choy unearths the little-known historical origins of Asian international adoption in the United States. Beginning with the post-World War II presence of the U.S. military in Asia, she reveals how mixed-race children born of Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese women and U.S. servicemen comprised one of the earliest groups of adoptive children. Based on extensive archival research, Global Families moves beyond one-dimensional portrayals of Asian international adoption as either a progressive form of U.S. multiculturalism or as an exploitative form of cultural and economic imperialism. Rather, Choy acknowledges the complexity of the phenomenon, illuminating both its radical possibilities of a world united across national, cultural, and racial divides through family formation and its strong potential for reinforcing the very racial and cultural hierarchies it sought to challenge.
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Nation of Nations ; 8
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. International Adoption Nation
1. Race and Rescue in Early Asian International Adoption History
2. The Hong Kong Project
3. A World Vision The Labor of Asian International Adoption
4. Global Family Making
5. To Make Historical Their Own Stories
Conclusion. New Geographies, Historical Legacies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. International Adoption Nation
1. Race and Rescue in Early Asian International Adoption History
2. The Hong Kong Project
3. A World Vision The Labor of Asian International Adoption
4. Global Family Making
5. To Make Historical Their Own Stories
Conclusion. New Geographies, Historical Legacies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author