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Unequal Motherhoods and the Adoption of Asian Children

Author : Jungyun Gill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498509630
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Unequal Motherhoods and the Adoption of Asian Children written by Jungyun Gill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a deeply personal aspect of globalization: the adoption of Asian children by white Americans. It is based on dozens of interviews with adoptive mothers and adoption social workers, nearly two hundred letters and essays written by Korean birth mothers who put their children up for adoption, and field work at an adoption agency in South Korea. It also includes analyses and explanations of U.S. and South Korean governments’ social characteristics and policies regarding adoptions and how relations between nations have affected international adoption. The book focuses on whether the commonly held notion that adoptions are to serve children’s welfare and their best interests has tended to render gendered aspects of international adoptions invisible. Factors such as gender inequality, social control of women’s reproductive power, patriarchic family structure, and social beliefs concerning womanhood and motherhood that affect international adoptions are revealed in this book. The multiple ways in which adoptive, birth, and foster mothers experience gender oppression from their different social positions of class, race, and nationality are explored and the interdependencies and inequalities of the motherhoods of these three groups of women are brought to light.

Forming, Doing, and Governing Adoptive Motherhood of Asian Children

Author : Jungyun Gill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book Forming, Doing, and Governing Adoptive Motherhood of Asian Children written by Jungyun Gill and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Problems and Social Movements

Author : James DeFronzo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442221550
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Social Problems and Social Movements written by James DeFronzo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended as the primary text for a social problems course, DeFronzo and Gill’s Social Problems and Social Movements stresses the need for collective action and social movements to solve social problems. Both instructors and students will find this a useful framework in which to view today’s most pressing social issues. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of social problems. Chapter 2 explains how social movements address social problems and describes sociological explanations for the development of social movements. Chapter 3 describes the power frameworks that participants in social movements must deal with in order to achieve success. Each following chapter presents overviews of social problems and provides examples of how working together can bring about positive change. Social Movements and Special Topics boxes provide information on aspects of specific social problems as well as how people organize and work together to solve them.

Global Families, Inequality and Transnational Adoption

Author : Riitta Högbacka
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137524766
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Book Synopsis Global Families, Inequality and Transnational Adoption by : Riitta Högbacka

Download or read book Global Families, Inequality and Transnational Adoption written by Riitta Högbacka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the simultaneous processes of making and un-making of families that are part of the adoption practice. Whereas most studies on transnational adoption concentrate on the adoptive family, the author identifies not only the happy occasion when a family gains a child, but also the sorrow and loss of the child to its family of origin. Situating transnational adoption in the context of the Global North-South divide, Hogbacka investigates the devastating effects of unequal life chances and asymmetrical power relations on the adoption process and on the mothers whose children are adopted. Based on unique primary material gathered in in-depth interviews with South African families of origin and Finnish adoptive families, the book investigates the decision-making processes of both sets of parents and the encounters between them. The first mothers' narratives are juxtaposed with those of the adopters and of the adoption social workers who act on the principles of the wider adoption system. Concluding with a critique of the Global Northism that exemplifies current practices, Hogbacka sketches the contours of a more just approach to transnational adoption that would shatter rather than perpetuate inequality. The book can also be read as an expose of the consequences of current inequalities for poor families. Global Families, Inequality and Transnational Adoption will be of interest to students and scholars of adoption studies, family and kinship, sociology, anthropology, social work and development.

Global Families

Author : Catherine Ceniza Choy
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814717225
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Global Families written by Catherine Ceniza Choy and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian international adoption to flourish. In Global Families, Catherine Ceniza Choy unearths the little-known historical origins of Asian international adoption in the United States. Beginning with the post-World War II presence of the U.S. military in Asia, she reveals how mixed-race children born of Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese women and U.S. servicemen comprised one of the earliest groups of adoptive children. Based on extensive archival research, Global Families moves beyond one-dimensional portrayals of Asian international adoption as either a progressive form of U.S. multiculturalism or as an exploitative form of cultural and economic imperialism. Rather, Choy acknowledges the complexity of the phenomenon, illuminating both its radical possibilities of a world united across national, cultural, and racial divides through family formation and its strong potential for reinforcing the very racial and cultural hierarchies it sought to challenge.

Culture Keeping

Author : Heather Jacobson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Culture Keeping written by Heather Jacobson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s, close to 250,000 children born abroad have been adopted into the United States. Nearly half of these children have come from China or Russia. Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference offers the first comparative analysis of these two popular adoption programs. Heather Jacobson examines these adoptions by focusing on a relatively new social phenomenon, the practice by international adoptive parents, mothers in particular, of incorporating aspects of their children's cultures of origin into their families' lives. "Culture keeping" is now standard in the adoption world, though few adoptive parents, the majority of whom are white and native-born, have experience with the ethnic practices of their children's homelands prior to adopting. Jacobson follows white adoptive mothers as they navigate culture keeping: from their motivations, to the pressures and constraints they face, to the content of their actual practices concerning names, food, toys, travel, cultural events, and communities of belonging. Through her interviews, she explores how women think about their children, their families, and themselves as mothers as they labor to construct or resist ethnic identities for their children, who may be perceived as birth children (because they are white) or who may be perceived as adopted (because of racial difference). The choices these women make about culture, Jacobson argues, offer a window into dominant ideas of race and the "American Family," and into how social differences are conceived and negotiated in the United States.

International Adoption

Author : Laura Briggs
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814795900
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book International Adoption written by Laura Briggs and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 its complex and sometimes contradictory effects. Rather than focusing only on the United States, as much previous work on the topic does, International Adoption considers the perspectives of a number of sending countries as well as other receiving countries, particularly in Europe. The book also reminds us that the U.S. also sends children into international adoptions—particularly children of color. The book thus complicates the standard scholarly treatment of the subject, which tends to focus on the tensions between those who argue that transnational adoption is an outgrowth of American wealth, power, and military might (as well as a rejection of adoption from domestic foster care) and those who maintain that it is about a desire to help children in need.

Transnational Adoption

Author : Sara K. Dorow
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814721478
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Adoption written by Sara K. Dorow and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 a fascinating look at the latest chapter in Chinese-American migration.

Adopting Maternity

Author : Nora Moosnick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313039186
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Adopting Maternity written by Nora Moosnick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the issues related to race, class, and gender involved in adoption based on in-depth interviews with 22 adoptive mothers. This text compares and contrasts the experiences of white women who adopted Asian, black, or biracial children. The bulk of the book is dedicated to presenting the women's words as they talk about their perceptions of fertility treatments, birth mothers, other mothers, adoption processes, and outsiders' reactions, among other matters. Feminist discourse is used to examine the applicability of these theories to women's self-characterizations. Beginning with an overview of the theoretical basis of the book, discussions of becoming an adoptive mother and the realities of being an adoptive mother follow. Each chapter presents feelings and experiences of adoptive mothers, in addition to analysis that brings these feelings into broader societal context. This honest portrayal will offer adoptive families, adoption professionals, and social workers important insights into mothers' adoptive experiences. Scholars of women's studies, social work, and sociology will find this volume useful as well.

West Meets East

Author : Gail Gamache
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0897897765
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book West Meets East written by Gail Gamache and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-05-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the new families that are appearing on city streets, in suburban malls, and at Fourth of July celebrations? The parents, in their 40s and 50s, are obviously Caucasian, and their very young daughters are obviously Chinese. This book is about these new American & Chinese families that are being formed through the mechanism of international adoption. The first survey of bicultural Chinese-American children, based on personal experience and rigorous research, both documents these adoptions and examines their implications for American society. This book will be of great use to couples considering or living with adopted Chinese children, professionals in social welfare and education, and scholars and other researchers involved with American multiculturalism.

The Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 21, Number 1 (Spring 2016)

Author : Donald Baker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442270950
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Korean Studies, Volume 21, Number 1 (Spring 2016) written by Donald Baker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of Washington-Korea Studies Program, in collaboration with Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, is proud to publish the Journal of Korean Studies.

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother

Author : Xinran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451610947
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother written by Xinran and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Great Britain in 2010 by Chatto & Windus.

A Passage to the Heart

Author : Amy Klatzkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963847225
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book A Passage to the Heart written by Amy Klatzkin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adoption, Race, and Identity

Author : William Laufer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351533835
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Adoption, Race, and Identity written by William Laufer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adoption, Race, and Identity is a long-range study of the impact of interracial adoption on those adopted and their families. Initiated in 1972, it was continued in 1979, 1984, and 1991. Cumulatively, these four phases trace the subjects from early childhood into young adulthood. This is the only extended study of this controversial subject.Simon and Altstein provide a broad perspective of the impact of transracial adoption and include profiles of the families involved in the study. They explore and compare the experiences of both the parents and the children. They identify families whose adoption experiences were problematic and those whose experiences were positive. Finally, the study looks at the insights the experience of transracial adoption brought to the adoptive parents and what advice they would pass on to future parents adopting children from different racial backgrounds. They include the reflections of those adopted included in the 1972 first phase, who are now adults themselves.This second edition includes a new concluding chapter that updates the fourth and last phase of the study. The authors were able to locate 88 of the 96 families who participated in the 1984 study. Bringing together all four phases of this twenty-year study into one volume gives the reader a richer and deeper understanding of what the experience of transracial adoption has meant for the parents, the adoptees, and children born into the families studied. This landmark work, will be of compelling interest to social workers, policy makers, and professionals and families involved on all sides of interracial adoption.

The Globalization of Motherhood

Author : Wendy Chavkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136962891
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Globalization of Motherhood written by Wendy Chavkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together research from the Global North and the Global South to illuminate how contemporary motherhood is changed by the processes of globalization.

Amie

Author : Paul Mooney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Amie written by Paul Mooney and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reassembling Motherhood

Author : Yasmine Ergas
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538073
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Reassembling Motherhood written by Yasmine Ergas and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word “mother” traditionally meant a woman who bears and nurtures a child. In recent decades, changes in social norms and public policy as well as advances in reproductive technologies and the development of markets for procreation and care have radically expanded definitions of motherhood. But while maternity has become a matter of choice for more women, the freedom to make reproductive decisions is unevenly distributed. Restrictive policies, socioeconomic disadvantages, cultural mores, and discrimination force some women into motherhood and prevent others from caring for their children. Reassembling Motherhood brings together contributors from across the disciplines to consider the transformation of motherhood as both an identity and a role. It examines how the processes of bearing and rearing a child are being restructured as reproductive labor and care work change around the globe. The authors examine issues such as artificial reproductive technologies, surrogacy, fetal ultrasounds, adoption, nonparental care, and the legal status of kinship, showing how complex chains of procreation and childcare have simultaneously generated greater liberty and new forms of constraint. Emphasizing the tension between the liberalization of procreation and care on the one hand, and the limits to their democratization due to race, class, and global inequality on the other, the book highlights debates that have emerged as these multifaceted changes have led to both the fragmentation and reassembling of motherhood.