Transnational Adoption : : A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship / / Sara K. Dorow.
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 con...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nation of Nations ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Why China?
- 2. Matches Made on Earth
- 3. Picturing Kinship
- 4. Client, Ambassador, and Gift
- 5. Shamian Island
- 6. Storied Origins
- 7. American Ghosts
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About The Author