Cultures of transnational adoption /

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The experiences in this volume consider how trans-national adoption creates and transforms cultures, in the light of the vast increase in their number.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Volkman, Toby Alice, 1948- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
Intercountry adoption.
Cognition and culture.
Kinship.
Transnationalism.
Adoption internationale.
Cognition et culture.
Parenté.
Transnationalisme.
kinship.
80.82 education in families.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Adoption & Fostering.
Cognition and culture
Intercountry adoption
Kinship
Transnationalism
Adoption
Ausländisches Kind
Adoption.
Foreigners.
Cultural differences.
Auslèandisches Kind.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: New geographies of kinship / Toby Alice Volkman
  • Part I. Displacements, roots, identities. Going "home": adoption, loss of bearings, and the mythology of roots / Barbara Yngvesson
  • Wedding citizenship and culture : Korean adoptees and the global family of Korea / Eleana Kim
  • Embodying Chinese culture : transnational adoption in North America / Toby Alice Volkman
  • Part II. Counterparts. Chaobao : the plight of Chinese adoptive parents in the era of the one-child policy / Kay Johnson
  • Patterns of shared parenthood among the Brazilian poor / Claudia Fonseca
  • Birth mothers and imaginary lives / Laurel Kendall
  • Part III. Representations. Images of "waiting children" : spectatorship and pity in the representation of the global social orphan in the 1990s / Lisa Cartwright
  • Phantom lives, narratives of possibility / Elizabeth Alice Honig.

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