Belonging in an Adopted World - Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption

Informationen zum Autor Barbara Yngvesson is professor of anthropology at Hampshire College! the author or coauthor of two previous volumes! and an associate editor at American Anthropologist. Klappentext Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. This title explores the consequences and implications of this unprecedented movement of children, usually from poor nations to the affluent West. Zusammenfassung Since the early 1990s! transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate! not only in the United States! but worldwide. This title explores the consequences and implications of this unprecedented movement of children! usually from poor nations to the affluent West.

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• Authors: Barbara Yngvesson, Barbara Yngvesson, Yngvesson Barbara
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2010
• EAN: 9780226964478
• ISBN: 978-0-226-96447-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Chicago Series in Law and Society; Chicago Series in Law and Society
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Adoption & fostering, Adoption and fostering, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity