International adoption [[electronic resource] ] : global inequalities and the circulation of children / / edited by Diana Marre and Laura Briggs

• Autore: Briggs Laura
• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.734
• Soggetto topico: Intercountry adoption; Adoption
• Soggetto non controllato: adoption; argument; children; circulating; complex; fostering; including; informal; kinship; more; stranger; transnational; view
• Altri autori: MarreDiana BriggsLaura <1964->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Movement of Children for International Adoption -- 2 International Adoption: Lessons from Hawai’i -- 3 The Social Temporalities of Adoption and the Limits of Plenary Adoption -- 4 The Desire for Parenthood among Lesbians and Gay Men -- 5 Refiguring Kinship in the Space of Adoption -- 6 The Transnational Adoption of a Related Child in Québec, Canada -- 7 Baby-Bearing Storks -- 8 Transnational Connections and Dissenting Views -- 9 International Adoption in Russia -- 10 The Medicalization of Adoption in and from Peru -- 11 Children, Individuality, Family -- 12 “We Do Not Have Immigrant Children at Th is School, We Just Have Children Adopted from Abroad” -- 13 Routes to the Roots -- 14 Return Journeys and the Search for Roots -- 15 Mothers for Others -- 16 Seeking Sisters -- About the Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In the past two decades, transnational adoption has exploded in scope and significance, growing up along increasingly globalized economic relations and the development and improvement of reproductive technologies. A complex and understudied system, transnational adoption opens a window onto the relations between nations, the inequalities of the rich and the poor, and the history of race and racialization, Transnational adoption has been marked by the geographies of unequal power, as children move from poorer countries and families to wealthier ones, yet little work has been done to synthesize its complex and sometimes contradictory effects.Rather than focusing only on the United States, as much previous work on the topic does, International Adoption considers the perspectives of a number of sending countries as well as other receiving countries, particularly in Europe. The book also reminds us that the U.S. also sends children into international adoptions—particularly children of color. The book thus complicates the standard scholarly treatment of the subject, which tends to focus on the tensions between those who argue that transnational adoption is an outgrowth of American wealth, power, and military might (as well as a rejection of adoption from domestic foster care) and those who maintain that it is about a desire to help children in need.
• Titolo autorizzato: International adoption
• ISBN: 0-8147-6447-9; 0-8147-9590-0; 1-4416-1573-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778026403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II