Belonging in an Adopted World

Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. In “Belonging in an Adopted World,” the author offers a penetrating exploration of the consequences and implications of this unprecedented movement of children, usually from poor nations to the affluent West. Yngvesson illuminates how the politics of adoption policy has profoundly affected the families, nations, and children involved in this new form of social and economic migration. Starting from the transformation of the abandoned child into an adoptable resource for nations that give and receive children in adoption, this volume examines the ramifications of such gifts, especially for families created through adoption and later, the adopted adults themselves.

Status: 1 in stock (can be backordered)

Published: 2010

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Softcover

ISBN: 0226964478

ID#: 3346

DC#: 362.734 Yn