Choosing Ethnicity, Negotiating Race : : Korean Adoptees in America / / Mia Tuan and Jiannbin Lee Shiao.
Transnational adoption was once a rarity in the United States, but Americans have been choosing to adopt children from abroad with increasing frequency since the mid-twentieth century. Korean adoptees make up the largest share of international adoptions- 25 percent of all children adopted from outsi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Russell Sage Foundation,, [2011] 2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 pages) :; illustrations |
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| Summary: | Transnational adoption was once a rarity in the United States, but Americans have been choosing to adopt children from abroad with increasing frequency since the mid-twentieth century. Korean adoptees make up the largest share of international adoptions- 25 percent of all children adopted from outside the United States -but they remain understudied among Asian American groups. What kind of identities do adoptees develop as members of American families and in a cultural climate that often views them as foreigners? |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-203) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780871548757 (alk. paper) 0871548755 9781610447065 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Mia Tuan and Jiannbin Lee Shiao. |