Adopted Territory : Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging /

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An ethnography documenting the experience of South Koreans adopted by American parents.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kim, Eleana Jean, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Intercountry adoption.
Adoptees.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > Parent & Adult Child.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > General.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Adoption & Fostering.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Abuse > Child Abuse.
Adoptes > États-Unis.
Adoptes > Coree du Sud.
Adoption internationale > États-Unis.
Adoption internationale > Coree du Sud.
Adoptees > United States.
Adoptees > Korea (South)
Intercountry adoption > United States.
Intercountry adoption > Korea (South)
United States.
Korea (South)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: understanding transnational Korean adoption
  • "Waifs" and "orphans" : the origins of Korean adoption
  • Adoptee kinship
  • Adoptee cultural citizenship
  • Public intimacies and private politics
  • Our adoptee, our alien : adoptees as specters of family and foreignness in global Korea
  • Made in Korea : adopted Koreans and native Koreans in the motherland
  • Beyond good and evil : the moral economies of children and their best interests in a global age.

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