Cultures of transnational adoption [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Toby Alice Volkman
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| Titolo: |
Cultures of transnational adoption [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Toby Alice Volkman
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, N.C., : Duke University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.734 |
| Soggetto topico: | Intercountry adoption |
| Cognition and culture | |
| Kinship | |
| Transnationalism | |
| Altri autori: |
VolkmanToby Alice <1948->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: New geographies of kinship / Toby Alice Volkman -- Part I. Displacements, roots, identities. Going "home": adoption, loss of bearings, and the mythology of roots / Barbara Yngvesson -- Wedding citizenship and culture: Korean adoptees and the global family of Korea / Eleana Kim -- Embodying Chinese culture: transnational adoption in North America / Toby Alice Volkman -- Part II. Counterparts. Chaobao: the plight of Chinese adoptive parents in the era of the one-child policy / Kay Johnson -- Patterns of shared parenthood among the Brazilian poor / Claudia Fonseca -- Birth mothers and imaginary lives / Laurel Kendall -- Part III. Representations. Images of "waiting children": spectatorship and pity in the representation of the global social orphan in the 1990s / Lisa Cartwright -- Phantom lives, narratives of possibility / Elizabeth Alice Honig. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | During the 1990s, the number of children adopted from poorer countries to the more affluent West grew exponentially. Close to 140,000 transnational adoptions occurred in the United States alone. While in an earlier era, adoption across borders was assumed to be straightforward-a child traveled to a new country and stayed there-by the late twentieth century, adoptees were expected to acquaint themselves with the countries of their birth and explore their multiple identities. Listservs, Web sites, and organizations creating international communities of adoptive parents and adoptees proliferated. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cultures of transnational adoption |
| ISBN: | 0-8223-8692-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780896803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.