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Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States (Asian American Experience) by Kimberly D. McKee is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States (Asian American Experience) about?
Interacting with Cold War ideology, individuals’ Christian Americanism supported the notion that Korean adoptees would enter “good homes” in a democratic society. Many children felt the brunt of this rhetoric as they were told adoption was in their “best interests” and that if not adoption, they would have fallen through the cracks of economic poverty and degradation in the land of their birth. In doing so, rhetorics of gratitude became cemented in international adoption discourse. This book exposes the growth of the transnational adoption industrial complex (TAIC)—the neo-colonial, multi-million dollar global industry that commodifies children’s bodies—in an examination of South Korean adoptions to the United States. The TAIC accounts for how the South Korean social welfare state, orphanages, adoption agencies, and American immigration legislation facilitated the development of transnational adoption between the two countries. Adoption became a rote process whereby government and non-governmental organizations and actors easily facilitated the exchange of children. Yet, the activism of adoptees and their allies expose the inherent messiness of adoption and reveal that adoption can
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- Author
- Kimberly D. McKee
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780252042287
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Family & Relationships, Social Science
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