Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship Contributor(s): Dorow, Sara K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814719724 ISBN-13: 9780814719725 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. "Provides an original and exciting global framework for understanding the political economy of international adoption." "This is a fascinating project, a book that (at last!) gives the phenomenon of transnational China/U.S. adoption the sustained, serious attention that it deserves." Each year, thousands of Chinese children, primarily abandoned infant girls, are adopted by Americans. Yet we know very little about the local and transnational processes that characterize this new migration. Transnational Adoption is a unique ethnographic study of China/U.S. adoption, the largest contemporary intercountry adoption program. Sara K. Dorow begins by situating the popularity of the China/U.S. adoption process within a broader history of immigration and adoption. She then follows the path of the adoption process: the institutions and bureaucracies in both China and the United States that prepare children and parents for each other; the stories and practices that legitimate them coming together as transnational families; the strains placed upon our common notions of what motherhood means; and ways in which parents then construct the cultural and racial identities of adopted children. Based on rich ethnographic evidence, including interviews with and observation of people on both sides of the Pacific--from orphanages, government officials, and adoption agencies to advocacy groups and adoptive families themselves--this is afascinating look at the latest chapter in Chinese-American migration. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family - Family & Relationships | Adoption & Fostering - Social Science | Gender Studies |
Dewey: 362.734 |
LCCN: 2005034182 |
Series: Nation of Newcomers: Immigrant History as American History |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 8.98" (1.02 lbs) 331 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese - Topical - Adoption |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Each year, thousands of Chinese children, primarily abandoned infant girls, are adopted by Americans. Yet we know very little about the local and transnational processes that characterize this new migration. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dorow, Sara K.: - Sara K. Dorow is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta. She is the author of When You Were Born in China: A Memory Book for Children Adopted in China and I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their Children. |