LEADER 03588nam 22006735 450 001 9911004793703321 005 20250628110029.0 010 $a0-8147-8548-4 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814785485 035 $a(CKB)2670000000167868 035 $a(EBL)865996 035 $a(OCoLC)784884493 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000607796 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11973842 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607796 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10591231 035 $a(PQKB)10921576 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865996 035 $a(OCoLC)794701174 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10316 035 $a(DE-B1597)547429 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814785485 035 $a(ODN)ODN0002685126 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000167868 100 $a20200723h20062006 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTransnational Adoption $eA Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship /$fSara K. Dorow 210 $d2006 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cNew York University Press, $d[2006] 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (343 p.) 225 0 $aNation of Nations ;$v9 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-8147-1971-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-320) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tcontents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Why China? -- $t2. Matches Made on Earth -- $t3. Picturing Kinship -- $t4. Client, Ambassador, and Gift -- $t5. Shamian Island -- $t6. Storied Origins -- $t7. American Ghosts -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAbout The Author 330 $aEach year, thousands of Chinese children, primarily abandoned infant girls, are adopted by Americans. Yet we know very little about the local and transnational processes that characterize this new migration.Transnational Adoption is a unique ethnographic study of China/U.S. adoption, the largest contemporary intercountry adoption program. Sara K. Dorow begins by situating the popularity of the China/U.S. adoption process within a broader history of immigration and adoption. She then follows the path of the adoption process: the institutions and bureaucracies in both China and the United States that prepare children and parents for each other; the stories and practices that legitimate them coming together as transnational families; the strains placed upon our common notions of what motherhood means; and ways in which parents then construct the cultural and racial identities of adopted children.Based on rich ethnographic evidence, including interviews with and observation of people on both sides of the Pacific?from orphanages, government officials, and adoption agencies to advocacy groups and adoptive families themselves?this is a fascinating look at the latest chapter in Chinese-American migration. 410 0$aNation of newcomers. 606 $aEthnicity$zChina 606 $aIntercountry adoption$zUnited States 606 $aIntercountry adoption$zChina 607 $aChina$xSocial life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEthnicity 615 0$aIntercountry adoption 615 0$aIntercountry adoption 676 $a362.7340951 686 $aSOC031000$aSOC032000$2bisacsh 700 $aDorow$b Sara K., $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01822509 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911004793703321 996 $aTransnational Adoption$94388734 997 $aUNINA