Between Light and Shadow: A Guatemalan Girl`s Journey through Adoption 9780803233621

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Автор: Jacob R. Wheeler
Название: Between Light and Shadow: A Guatemalan Girl`s Journey through Adoption
ISBN: 9780803233621
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Классификация:

Социальная история и история культуры

Исследования латиноамериканских этнических групп

Возрастные группы: дети

Усыновление и воспитание

Усыновление

ISBN-10: 0803233620
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 248
Вес: 0.44 кг.
Дата издания: 2011-04-01
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 27 illustrations
Размер: 222 x 147 x 22
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Основная тема: Adoption,Adoption & fostering,Age groups: children,Hispanic & Latino studies,Social & cultural history, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studie
Подзаголовок: A guatemalan girl`s journey through adoption
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание:

“An adoption professional once told me, ‘At its best, there is no adoption system as good as Guatemala’s. At its worst, there is none worse.’”—from the foreword by Kevin Kreutner

In Between Light and Shadow veteran journalist Jacob Wheeler puts a human face on the Guatemalan adoption industry, which has exploited, embraced, and sincerely sought to improve the lives of the Central American nation’s poorest children. Fourteen-year-old Ellie, abandoned at age seven and adopted by a middle-class family from Michigan, is at the center of this story. Wheeler re-creates the painful circumstances of Ellie’s abandonment, her adoption and Americanization, her search for her birth mother, and her joyous and haunting return to Guatemala, where she finds her teenage brothers—unleashing a bond that transcends language and national borders.

Following Ellie’s journey, Wheeler peels back the layers of an adoption economy that some view as an unscrupulous baby-selling industry that manipulates impoverished indigenous Guatemalan women, and others herald as the only chance for poor children to have a better life. Through Ellie, Wheeler allows us to see what all this means in personal and practical terms—and to understand how well-intentioned and sometimes humanitarian first-world wealth can collide with the extreme poverty, despair, misogyny, racism, and violent history of Guatemala.

Дополнительное описание:

Foreword
Kevin Kreutner
Preface

Prologue

Part 1. The Journey
1. The Agony
2. "Why Can't We?"
3. The Relinquishment
4. Shopping for Kids
5. Forgotten Land
6. An American Gir

Between Light and Shadow: A Guatemalan Girl`s Journey through Adoption, Jacob R. Wheeler