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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Table of Contents:
  • A letter
  • Prologue
  • The safehouse of identity
  • The only thing we can give away is children
  • National resources
  • A child of any color
  • Early disturbances
  • The body within the body
  • Return
  • Epilogue.