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Informationen zum Autor Toby Alice Volkman, ed. Klappentext "This outstanding collection--a rich mix of analyses and first person accounts--offers insights into an under-reported aspect of globalization: the ever-increasing circulation of children around the globe through transnational adoption. The kinship relations created through such processes have taken a distinctly postmodern turn as adoptive families nurture rather than sever their new children's cultural connections to birth countries. All of this is greatly facilitated by the Internet, video technologies, and the creation of social worlds that underwrite these new forms of cultural making."--Faye Ginsburg, New York University Zusammenfassung Considers how trans-national adoption creates and transforms cultures Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: New Geographies of Kinship / Toby Alice Volkman 1 Part I. Displacements, Roots, Identities Going “Home”: Adoption, Loss of Bearings, and the Mythology of Roots / Barbara Yngvesson 25 Wedding Citizenship and Culture: Korean Adoptees and the Global Family of Korea / Eleana Kim Embodying Chinese Culture: Transnational Adoption in North America / Toby Alice Volkman 81 Part II. Counterparts Chaobao: The Plight of Chinese Adoptive Parents in the Era of the One-Child Policy / Kay Johnson 117 Patterns of Shared Parenthood among the Brazilian Poor / Claudia Fonseca 142 Birth Mothers and Imaginary Lives / Laurel Kendall 162 Part III. Representations Images of “Waiting Children”: Spectatorship and Pity in the Representation of the Global Social Orphan in the 1990s / Lisa Cartwright 185 Phanton Lives, Narratives of Possibility / Elizabeth Alice Honig 213 Contributors 223 Index 225
