Global families : a history of Asian international adoption in America /

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In the last fifty years, transnational adoption - specifically, the adoption of Asian children - has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian interna...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Choy, Catherine Ceniza, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Colección:Nation of newcomers.
Temas:
Intercountry adoption > United States.
Intercountry adoption > Asia.
Adopted children > United States.
Adoption > United States.
Asian Americans.
Adoption internationale > États-Unis.
Adoption internationale > Asie.
Enfants adoptés > États-Unis.
Adoption > États-Unis.
Américains d'origine asiatique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Adopted children
Adoption
Asian Americans
Intercountry adoption
Asiatisches Kind
Asia
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : International adoption nation
  • Race and rescue in early Asian international adoption history
  • The Hong Kong project : Chinese international adoption in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s
  • A world vision : the labor of Asian international adoption
  • Global family making : narratives by and about adoptive families
  • To make historical their own stories : adoptee narratives as Asian American history
  • Conclusion : new geographies, historical legacies.

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