02864nam 22006133u 450 991078640980332120230803202815.01-4529-4102-5(CKB)3710000000121458(EBL)1701707(SSID)ssj0001224440(PQKBManifestationID)11675694(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001224440(PQKBWorkID)11261647(PQKB)10695376(MiAaPQ)EBC1701707(EXLCZ)99371000000012145820140616d2014|||| u|| |engtxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFrom orphan to adoptee U.S. empire and genealogies of Korean adoption /SooJin PateMinneapolis, Minnesota :University of Minnesota Press,2014.1 online resource (220 pages) illustrationsDifference IncorporatedIncludes index.Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-8307-7 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.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 StatesDifference IncorporatedIntercountry adoptionKorea (South)Intercountry adoptionUnited StatesInterracial adoptionUnited StatesOrphansKorea (South)Adopted childrenUnited StatesKorean American childrenCultural assimilationIntercountry adoptionIntercountry adoptionInterracial adoptionOrphansAdopted childrenKorean American childrenCultural assimilation.362.734089362.734089957073Pate SooJin1530269AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910786409803321From orphan to adoptee3775237UNINA