The Best Possible Immigrants : : International Adoption and the American Family / / Rachel Rains Winslow.
Prior to World War II, international adoption was virtually unknown, but in the twenty-first century, it has become a common practice, touching almost every American. How did the adoption of foreign children by U.S. families become an essential part of American culture in such a short period of time...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Culture in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 6 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction. The Interest of Many: The Foundations of International Adoption
- Chapter 1. “Babyselling Rings,” “Adoption Mills,” and “Baby Rackets”: Formalizing Policies and Manufacturing Markets
- Chapter 2. “An International Baby Hunt”: The “Gray Market” in Greece
- Chapter 3. “The Great Heart of America”: Volunteer Humanitarians and Korean Adoptions
- Chapter 4. Coming Out of the Shadows: Adoptive Parents as Public Figures
- Chapter 5. A New Kind of Racial Alchemy: International Development, Transracial Adoption, and the Vietnam War
- Chapter 6. “Children of Controversy”: Operation Babylift and the Crisis of Humanitarianism
- Epilogue. The Legacy of Voluntarism: International Adoption in the Twenty-First Century
- Appendix. Selected Immigration Legislation and Refugee Action Chronology, 1945–1976
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments