Belonging in an adopted world : race, identity, and transnational adoption / Barbara Yngvesson.

Since the early 1990s, 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, us...

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Main Author: Yngvesson, Barbara, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Series:Chicago series in law and society.
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Summary:Since the early 1990s, 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.
Physical Description:xii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (page 246) and index.
ISBN:9780226964461
0226964469
9780226964478
0226964477