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UNINA9910791474003321 |
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Autore |
Yngvesson Barbara |
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Titolo |
Belonging in an adopted world [[electronic resource] ] : race, identity, and transnational adoption / / Barbara Yngvesson |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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9786612646546 |
0-226-96448-5 |
1-282-64654-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (261 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Chicago series in law and society |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Intercountry adoption |
Interracial adoption |
Interethnic adoption |
Intercountry adoption - Law and legislation |
Intercountry adoption - Sweden |
Intercountry adoption - India |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Letter -- Prologue -- 1. The Safehouse of Identity -- 2. The Only Thing We Can Give Away Is Children -- 3. National Resources -- 4. A Child of Any Color -- 5. Early Disturbances -- 6. The Body within the Body -- 7. Return -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Since the early 1990's, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. In Belonging in an Adopted World, Barbara Yngvesson offers a penetrating exploration of the consequences and implications of this unprecedented movement of children, usually from poor nations to the affluent West. Yngvesson illuminates how the politics of adoption policy has profoundly affected the families, nations, and children involved in this new form of social and economic migration. Starting from the transformation of the abandoned child into an adoptable resource for nations that give and receive children in adoption, this volume examines the ramifications of such gifts, especially for families created |
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