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Informationen zum Autor Jessaca B. Leinaweaver Klappentext Focused on Peruvian adoptees and immigrants in Spain, this ethnography explores the adopted children's experience of growing up in a country that discriminates against their fellow immigrants. "In Adoptive Migration, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver brings her earlier work on kinship and adoption in Peru to bear on the lives of Peruvian migrants to Spain. Arguing for an integrated analysis of migration and kinship, she produces bold new insights into how children from Peru, including adoptees and immigrants, navigate their lives in a rapidly changing Spain. In the process, she raises important questions about nationality and identity." - Andrew Canessa, author of Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life "In this lucid and beautifully written book, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver rethinks transnational adoption, considering it as a form of immigration. Focusing on Spain, an epicenter for both phenomena, she examines the notions of culture, assimilation, and childhood that make receiving societies treat transnational adoptees and other immigrants so differently. This book provides food for thought for all those touched by transnational adoption or immigration, which is to say, all of us." - Laura Briggs, author of Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption Zusammenfassung Focused on Peruvian adoptees and immigrants in Spain! this ethnography explores the adopted children's experience of growing up in a country that discriminates against their fellow immigrants. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Comparing Adoption and Migration 1 1. Waiting for a Baby: Adopting the Ideal Immigrant 25 2. The Best Interests of a Migrant's Child: Separating Families or Displacing Children? 47 3. Mixed Marriages: Migrants and Adoption 66 4. Undomesticated Adoption: Adopting the Children of Immigrants 84 5. Solidarity: Postadoptive Overtures 102 6. Becoming and Unbecoming Peruvian: Culture, Ethnicity, and Race 122 Conclusion. What Adoptive Migration Might Mean 148 Notes 155 References 179 Index 193...
