From orphan to adoptee : U.S. empire and genealogies of Korean adoption / / SooJin Pate

• Autore: Pate SooJin
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 362.734089; 362.734089957073
• Soggetto topico: Intercountry adoption - Korea (South); Intercountry adoption - United States; Interracial adoption - United States; Orphans - Korea (South); Adopted children - United States; Korean American children - Cultural assimilation
• Note generali: Includes index.; Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 States
• Titolo autorizzato: From orphan to adoptee
• ISBN: 1-4529-4102-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786409803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Difference Incorporated