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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464817803321

Autore

Pate SooJin

Titolo

From orphan to adoptee : U.S. empire and genealogies of Korean adoption / / SooJin Pate

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-4529-4102-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Difference Incorporated

Disciplina

362.734089

362.734089957073

Soggetti

Intercountry adoption - Korea (South)

Intercountry adoption - United States

Interracial adoption - United States

Orphans - Korea (South)

Adopted children - United States

Korean American children - Cultural assimilation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Challenging the Official Story of Korean Adoption -- Militarized Humanitarianism: Rethinking the Emergence of Korean Adoption -- Gender and the Militaristic Gaze -- Marketing the Social Orphan -- Normalizing the Adopted Child -- "I Wanted My Head to Be Removed": The Limits of Normativity -- Tracing Other Genealogies of Korean Adoption.

Sommario/riassunto

Since the 1950's, more than 100,000 Korean children have been adopted by predominantly white Americans; they were orphans of the Korean War, or so the story went. But begin the story earlier, as SooJin Pate does, and what has long been viewed as humanitarian rescue reveals itself as an exercise in expanding American empire during the Cold War.  Transnational adoption was virtually nonexistent in Korea until U.S. military intervention in the 1940's. Currently it generates 35 million in revenue-an economic miracle for South Korea and a social



and political boon for the United States