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1 online resource (321 pages) |
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Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Circulation of Children; PART I: Defining Reproduction: Law, Strangers, Family, Kin; 1 The Movement of Children for International Adoption: Developments and Trends in Receiving States and States of Origin, 1998 -- 2004; 2 International Adoption: Lessons from Hawai'i; 3 The Social Temporalities of Adoption and the Limits of Plenary Adoption; 4 The Desire for Parenthood among Lesbians and Gay Men; 5 Refiguring Kinship in the Space of Adoption; 6 The Transnational Adoption of a Related Child in Québec, Canada |
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PART II: Perspectives from Sending Countries7 Baby-Bearing Storks: Brazilian Intermediaries in the Adoption Process; 8 Transnational Connections and Dissenting Views: The Evolution of Child Placement Policies in Brazil; 9 International Adoption in Russia: "Market," "Children for Organs," and "Precious" or "Bad" Genes; 10 The Medicalization of Adoption in and from Peru; 11 Children, Individuality, Family: Discussing Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Adoption in Lithuania; PART III: Experiences in Receiving Countries |
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12 "We Do Not Have Immigrant Children at This School, We Just Have Children Adopted from Abroad": Flexible Understandings of Children's "Origins"13 Routes to the Roots: Toward an Anthropology of Genealogical Practices; 14 Return Journeys and the Search for Roots: Contradictory Values Concerning Identity; 15 Mothers for Others: Between Friendship and the Market; 16 Seeking Sisters: Twinship and Kinship in an Age of Internet Miracles and DNA Technologies; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
In the past two decades, transnational adoption has exploded in scope and significance, growing up along increasingly globalized economic relations and the development and improvement of reproductive technologies. A complex and understudied system, transnational adoption opens a window onto the relations between nations, the inequalities of the rich and the poor, and the history of race and racialization, Transnational adoption has been marked by the geographies of unequal power, as children move from poorer countries and families to wealthier ones, yet little work has been done to synthesize |
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Print version record |
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Intercountry adoption.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Intercountry adoption.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Briggs, Laura
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| ISBN |
9780814764473 |
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0814764479 |
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