The Kinning of Foreigners : : Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective / / Signe Howell.
Since the late nineteen sixties, transnational adoption has emerged as a global phenomenon. Due to a sharp decline in infants being made available for adoption locally, involuntarily childless couples in Western Europe and North America who wish to create a family, have to look to look to countries...
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Howell, Signe, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Kinning of Foreigners : Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective / Signe Howell. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2006] ©2006 1 online resource (276 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Adoption – Biology or Sociality? -- Part II Governmentality and the Role of Psycho-technocrats -- Postscript: A Note on Methods -- Bibliography -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Since the late nineteen sixties, transnational adoption has emerged as a global phenomenon. Due to a sharp decline in infants being made available for adoption locally, involuntarily childless couples in Western Europe and North America who wish to create a family, have to look to look to countries in the poor South and Eastern Europe. The purpose of this book is to locate transnational adoption within a broad context of contemporary Western life, especially values concerning family, children and meaningful relatedness, and to explore the many ambiguities and paradoxes that the practice entails. Based on empirical research from Norway, the author identifies three main themes for analysis: Firstly, by focusing on the perceived relationship between biology and sociality, she examines how notions of child, childhood and significant relatedness vary across time and space. She argues that through a process of kinning, persons are made into kin. In the case of adoption, kinning overcomes a dominant cultural emphasis placed upon biological connectedness. Secondly, it is a study of the rise of expert knowledge in the understanding of ‘the best interest of the child’, and how the part played by the ‘psycho.technocrats’ effects national and international policy and practice of transnational adoption. Thirdly, it shows how transnational adoption both depends upon and helps to foster the globalisation of Western rationality and morality. The book is an original contribution to the anthropological study of kinship and globalisation. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) Intercountry adoption Norway. Intercountry adoption. Kinship. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies. bisacsh Anthropology (General), Educational Studies, Sociology. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110998283 ZDB-23-BHBO print 9781845453305 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782382058?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782382058 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782382058/original |
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