Until I Find You - Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

During Guatemala's decades-long civil war, tens of thousands of children, many of them Indigenous Maya, were coerced or kidnapped from their homes. They became commodities in a booming private adoption business, and most wound up in the United States. Rachel Nolan explores the human toll of a global industry that thrives on exploitation.

About the author

Rachel Nolan is Contributing Editor at Harper’s Magazine and has written for the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the Salvadoran investigative news outlet El Faro. She is Assistant Professor of International History at Boston University.

Summary

During Guatemala’s decades-long civil war, tens of thousands of children, many of them Indigenous Maya, were coerced or kidnapped from their homes. They became commodities in a booming private adoption business, and most wound up in the United States. Rachel Nolan explores the human toll of a global industry that thrives on exploitation.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Nolan
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9780674270350
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27035-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, Indigenous Peoples, Human trafficking, Relating to indigenous peoples, Social and cultural history, Adoption & fostering, War Crimes, History of the Americas, The Americas, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Adoption and fostering: advice and issues, Adoption and fostering, Mexico and Central America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Trafficking, HISTORY / Indigenous / General