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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823502203321

Titolo

Belonging in an adopted world : race, identity, and transnational adoption / / Barbara Yngvesson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2010

ISBN

9786612646546

0-226-96448-5

1-282-64654-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

The Chicago series in law and society

Altri autori (Persone)

YngvessonBarbara <1941->

Disciplina

362.734

Soggetti

Intercountry adoption

Interracial adoption

Interethnic adoption

Intercountry adoption - Law and legislation

Intercountry adoption - Sweden

Intercountry adoption - India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



through adoption and later, the adopted adults themselves. Bolstered by an account of the author's own experience as an adoptive parent, and fully attuned to the contradictions of race that shape our complex forms of family, Belonging in an Adopted World explores the fictions that sustain adoptive kinship, ultimately exposing the vulnerability and contingency behind all human identity.