03980nam 2200817Ia 450 991095323330332120251116210058.09786612646546978022696448502269644859781282646544128264654010.7208/9780226964485(CKB)2560000000015013(EBL)547722(OCoLC)646068369(SSID)ssj0000398789(PQKBManifestationID)12141322(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000398789(PQKBWorkID)10362215(PQKB)11751688(DE-B1597)523122(DE-B1597)9780226964485(Au-PeEL)EBL547722(CaPaEBR)ebr10395660(CaONFJC)MIL264654(MiAaPQ)EBC547722(Perlego)1851091(EXLCZ)99256000000001501320090720d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBelonging in an adopted world race, identity, and transnational adoption /Barbara Yngvesson1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20101 online resource (261 p.)The Chicago series in law and societyDescription based upon print version of record.9780226964478 0226964477 9780226964461 0226964469 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 adoptionIndiaIntercountry adoption.Interracial adoption.Interethnic adoption.Intercountry adoptionLaw and legislation.Intercountry adoptionIntercountry adoption362.734Yngvesson Barbara, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autYngvesson Barbara1941-941969MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910953233303321Belonging in an adopted world4360564UNINA