1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778026403321

Autore

Briggs Laura

Titolo

International adoption [[electronic resource] ] : global inequalities and the circulation of children / / edited by Diana Marre and Laura Briggs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8147-6447-9

0-8147-9590-0

1-4416-1573-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MarreDiana

BriggsLaura <1964->

Disciplina

362.734

Soggetti

Intercountry adoption

Adoption

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Movement of Children for International Adoption -- 2 International Adoption: Lessons from Hawai’i -- 3 The Social Temporalities of Adoption and the Limits of Plenary Adoption -- 4 The Desire for Parenthood among Lesbians and Gay Men -- 5 Refiguring Kinship in the Space of Adoption -- 6 The Transnational Adoption of a Related Child in Québec, Canada -- 7 Baby-Bearing Storks -- 8 Transnational Connections and Dissenting Views -- 9 International Adoption in Russia -- 10 The Medicalization of Adoption in and from Peru -- 11 Children, Individuality, Family -- 12 “We Do Not Have Immigrant Children at Th is School, We Just Have Children Adopted from Abroad” -- 13 Routes to the Roots -- 14 Return Journeys and the Search for Roots -- 15 Mothers for Others -- 16 Seeking Sisters -- About the Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the past two decades, transnational adoption has exploded in scope and significance, growing up along increasingly globalized economic relations and the development and improvement of reproductive technologies. A complex and understudied system, transnational adoption opens a window onto the relations between nations, the



inequalities of the rich and the poor, and the history of race and racialization, Transnational adoption has been marked by the geographies of unequal power, as children move from poorer countries and families to wealthier ones, yet little work has been done to synthesize its complex and sometimes contradictory effects.Rather than focusing only on the United States, as much previous work on the topic does, International Adoption considers the perspectives of a number of sending countries as well as other receiving countries, particularly in Europe. The book also reminds us that the U.S. also sends children into international adoptions—particularly children of color. The book thus complicates the standard scholarly treatment of the subject, which tends to focus on the tensions between those who argue that transnational adoption is an outgrowth of American wealth, power, and military might (as well as a rejection of adoption from domestic foster care) and those who maintain that it is about a desire to help children in need.

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Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00130168

Autore

Piketty, Thomas

Titolo

Capital and ideology / Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, : Belknap, 2020

Titolo uniforme

Capital et idéologie

ISBN

97-8067-498-082

Descrizione fisica

ix, 1093 p. ; 24 cm.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia