03882nam 2200757Ia 450 991045797890332120200520144314.097866126465460-226-96448-51-282-64654-010.7208/9780226964485(CKB)2560000000015013(EBL)547722(OCoLC)646068369(SSID)ssj0000398789(PQKBManifestationID)12141322(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000398789(PQKBWorkID)10362215(PQKB)11751688(MiAaPQ)EBC547722(DE-B1597)523122(DE-B1597)9780226964485(Au-PeEL)EBL547722(CaPaEBR)ebr10395660(CaONFJC)MIL264654(EXLCZ)99256000000001501320090720d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBelonging in an adopted world[electronic resource] race, identity, and transnational adoption /Barbara YngvessonChicago University of Chicago Press20101 online resource (261 p.)The Chicago series in law and societyDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-96447-7 0-226-96446-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexSince 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.Chicago series in law and society.Intercountry adoptionInterracial adoptionInterethnic adoptionIntercountry adoptionLaw and legislationIntercountry adoptionSwedenIntercountry adoptionIndiaElectronic books.Intercountry adoption.Interracial adoption.Interethnic adoption.Intercountry adoptionLaw and legislation.Intercountry adoptionIntercountry adoption362.734Yngvesson Barbara, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut941969Yngvesson Barbara1941-941969MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457978903321Belonging in an adopted world2125393UNINA