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Cultures of Transnational Adoption by Toby Alice Volkman, Kay Johnson, Barbara Yngvesson, Laurel Kendall, Lisa Cartwright is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><p>during The 1990s, The Number Of Children Adopted From Poorer Countries To The More Affluent West Grew Exponentially. Close To 140,000 Transnational Adoptions Occurred In The United States Alone. While In An Earlier Era, Adoption Across Borders Was Assumed To Be Straightforward&mdash;a Child Traveled To A New Country And Stayed There&mdash;by The Late Twentieth Century, Adoptees Were Expected To Acquaint Themselves With The Countries Of Their Birth And Explore Their Multiple Identities. Listservs, Web Sites, And Organizations Creating International Communities Of Adoptive Parents And Adoptees Proliferated. With Contributors Including Several Adoptive Parents, This Unique Collection Looks At How Transnational Adoption Creates And Transforms Cultures.<p>the Cultural Experiences Considered In This Volume Raise Important Questions About Race And Nation; About Kinship, Biology, And Belonging; And About The Politics Of The Sending And Receiving Nations. Several Essayists Explore The Images And Narratives Related To Transnational Adoption. Others Examine The Recent Preoccupation With &ldquo;roots&rdquo; And &ldquo;birth Cultures.&rdquo; They Describe A Trip During Which A Group Of Ch

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Author

Toby Alice Volkman, Kay Johnson, Barbara Yngvesson, Laurel Kendall, Lisa Cartwright

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822365778

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Family & Relationships, Social Science, Anthropology