To Save the Children of Korea - The Cold War Origins of International Adoption

Zusatztext " To Save the Children of Korea would be of interest to historians of modern Korean history and American Cold War history. The book also makes important contributions to interdisciplinary fields such as adoption studies! critical mixed-race studies! and Asian American and ethnic studies....[T]his book illuminates how the spheres of "public" and "private!" "domestic" and "political" are deeply imbricated and complicate American ideologies about family! nation! and race that rely on these binaries." Informationen zum Autor Arissa H. Oh is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Boston College. Klappentext To Save the Children of Korea examines how and why the practice of international adoption began in Korea in the 1950s, and how it grew and spread to other sending and receiving countries around the world in the decades since. Zusammenfassung To Save the Children of Korea examines how and why the practice of international adoption began in Korea in the 1950s, and how it grew and spread to other sending and receiving countries around the world in the decades since.

Product details

• Authors: Oh Arissa, Arissa Oh, Arissa H Oh, Arissa H. Oh
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9780804791984
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-9198-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Asian America; Asian America
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work