From Orphan to Adoptee : U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption /

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Since the 1950s, more than 100,000 Korean children have been adopted by predominantly white Americans; they were orphans of the Korean War, or so the story went. But begin the story earlier, and what has long been viewed as humanitarian rescue reveals itself as an exercise in expanding American empi...

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Autor principal: Pate, SooJin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Orphans.
Interracial adoption.
Intercountry adoption.
Adopted children.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Enfants americains d'origine coreenne > Acculturation.
Enfants adoptes > États-Unis.
Adoption interraciale > États-Unis.
Adoption internationale > États-Unis.
Adoption internationale > Coree du Sud.
Korean American children > Cultural assimilation.
Adopted children > United States.
Orphans > Korea (South)
Interracial adoption > United States.
Intercountry adoption > United States.
Intercountry adoption > Korea (South)
United States.
Korea (South)
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: challenging the official story of Korean adoption
  • Militarized humanitarianism: rethinking the emergence of Korean adoption
  • Gender and the militaristic gaze
  • Marketing the social orphan
  • Normalizing the adopted child
  • "I wanted my head to be removed": the limits of normativity
  • Epilogue: tracing other genealogies of Korean adoption.

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