Out of place : the lives of Korean adoptee immigrants / SunAh M Laybourn.
Laybourn, SunAh M., author.
2024
HV875.5 .L39 2024eb
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Title Out of place : the lives of Korean adoptee immigrants / SunAh M Laybourn.
Author Laybourn, SunAh M., author.
ISBN 9781479814831 (electronic bk.)
1479814830 (electronic bk.)
9781479814787
1479814784
1479814776
9781479814770
Published New York : New York University Press, [2024]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (227 pages)
Call Number HV875.5 .L39 2024eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.734089957
Summary "Since the early 1950s, over 125,000 Korean children have been adopted in the United States, primarily by white families. Korean adoptees figure in twenty-five percent of US transnational adoptions and are the largest group of transracial adoptees currently in adulthood. Despite being legally adopted, Korean adoptees' position as family members did not automatically ensure legal, cultural, or social citizenship. Korean adoptees routinely experience refusals of belonging, whether by state agents, laws, and regulations, in everyday interactions, or even through media portrayals that render them invisible. In Out of Place, SunAh M Laybourn, herself a Korean American adoptee, examines this long-term journey, with a particular focus on the race-making process and the contradictions inherent to the model minority myth." -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Asian American Sociology Series.
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Introduction: exceptional belonging
Feeling white, feeling right
Refusals of belonging
Adoptable orphan, deportable immigrant
Korean plus something else
Our lives, our stories
Conclusion: staking claims.

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