Belonging in an adopted world : race, identity, and transnational adoption /
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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2010
Chicago : 2010 |
| Series: | Chicago series in law and society
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 |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 246 p. : ill. ; 23 cm xii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm xii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) and index Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0226964469 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226964469 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0226964469 0226964477 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226964477 9780226964461 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226964461 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780226964461 9780226964478 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780226964478 |