Описание: “Do you know your real parents?” is a question many adoptees are asked. In In Reunion, Sara Docan-Morgan probes the basic notions of family, adoption, and parenthood by exploring initial meetings and ongoing relationships that transnational Korean adoptees have had with their birth parents and other birth family members. Drawing from qualitative interviews with adult Korean adoptees in the United States and Denmark, as well as her own experiences as an adoptee, Docan-Morgan illuminates the complexities of communication surrounding reunion.
The paradoxes of adoption and reunion—shared history without blood relations, and blood relations without shared history—generate questions: What does it mean to be “family”? How do people use communication to constitute family relationships? How are family relationships created, maintained, and negotiated over time? In Reunion details adoptive and cultural identities, highlighting how adoptees often end up shouldering communicative responsibility in their family relationships. Interviews reveal how adoptees navigate birth family relationships across language and culture while also attempting to maintain relationships with their adoptive family members.
Docan-Morgan details the challenges, rewards, and contradictions of reunion. She also offers practical recommendations for transnational adoptees in reunion, adoptees considering reunion, adoptive families, and adoption practitioners.
In tracing the stories of the intercultural dynamics inherent in adoptees’ reunions, Docan-Morgan demonstrates the effort, flexibility, empathy, self-reflection, and time required to navigate long-term relationships with birth families.
Описание: This book investigates the experiences of South Koreans adopted into Western families and the complexity of what it means to `feel identity` beyond what is written in official adoption files.
Автор: Walton, Jessica Название: Korean Adoptees and Transnational Adoption ISBN: 0367671484 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367671488 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America, Europe, and Australia. While these transnational adoptions were initiated as an emergency measure to find homes for mixed-race children born in the aftermath of the war, the practice grew exponentially from the 1960s through the 1980s. At the height of South Korea’s “economic miracle,” adoption became an institutionalized way of dealing with poor and illegitimate children. Most of the adoptees were raised with little exposure to Koreans or other Korean adoptees, but as adults, through global flows of communication, media, and travel, they have come into increasing contact with each other, Korean culture, and the South Korean state. Since the 1990s, as Korean children have continued to leave to be adopted in the West, a growing number of adult adoptees have been returning to Korea to seek their cultural and biological origins. In this fascinating ethnography, Eleana J. Kim examines the history of Korean adoption, the emergence of a distinctive adoptee collective identity, and adoptee returns to Korea in relation to South Korean modernity and globalization. Kim draws on interviews with adult adoptees, social workers, NGO volunteers, adoptee activists, scholars, and journalists in the U.S., Europe, and South Korea, as well as on observations at international adoptee conferences, regional organization meetings, and government-sponsored motherland tours.
Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America, Europe, and Australia. While these transnational adoptions were initiated as an emergency measure to find homes for mixed-race children born in the aftermath of the war, the practice grew exponentially from the 1960s through the 1980s. At the height of South Korea’s “economic miracle,” adoption became an institutionalized way of dealing with poor and illegitimate children. Most of the adoptees were raised with little exposure to Koreans or other Korean adoptees, but as adults, through global flows of communication, media, and travel, they have come into increasing contact with each other, Korean culture, and the South Korean state. Since the 1990s, as Korean children have continued to leave to be adopted in the West, a growing number of adult adoptees have been returning to Korea to seek their cultural and biological origins. In this fascinating ethnography, Eleana J. Kim examines the history of Korean adoption, the emergence of a distinctive adoptee collective identity, and adoptee returns to Korea in relation to South Korean modernity and globalization. Kim draws on interviews with adult adoptees, social workers, NGO volunteers, adoptee activists, scholars, and journalists in the U.S., Europe, and South Korea, as well as on observations at international adoptee conferences, regional organization meetings, and government-sponsored motherland tours.
Автор: Chalek Mike, Gardner Jessica Название: Fraud on the Court: One Adoptee`s Fight to Reclaim His Identity ISBN: 0988535114 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780988535114 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2389.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Ankerfelt Sally, Swift Gayle H. Название: Reimagining Adoption: What Adoptees Seek from Families and Faith ISBN: 1733659722 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781733659727 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1510.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
"Reimagining Adoption" examines beliefs, practices, and Scripture to distill adoption policy steeped in Christian values and attuned to the needs of vulnerable children and their families. It examines the historical practices, reviews current practices and proposes revisions. More importantly, it lifts up the words of adult adoptees--the true experts on adoption--and braids them with the insights of adoptive families to craft a new adoption paradigm. Readers will learn:
How to become better Christian parents and more supportive faith communities
How to answer tough questions and to anticipate who will pose them and why
How to clarify Christian adoption beliefs and practices
What makes adoptees the true adoption experts
How to process the pain of birth parent loss
How to validate adoptee grief and loss
How to support family preservation
How the radical love of Christ must reshape the way we approach adoption
What first-hand adoptee/adoptive family accounts can teach us about faith and adoption
How to serve vulnerable children and their families with faith, love, and understanding
Автор: Rudy Owens Название: You Don`t Know How Lucky You Are ISBN: 0692821562 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692821565 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2344.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Moore Jr Willie Название: You Belong Here: An Adoptees Love Story ISBN: 0578603454 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780578603452 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2578.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Have you ever wondered what the perfect adoption story looked like?
Adopted by two ex-sharecroppers Willie Moore Jr. shares seven stories of his adoption experience that will make you laugh, cry and erase any negative stigma about adoption. This remarkable adoption story inspires adoptees and foster children to love and respect their new families and adjust with a winning attitude. Parents are given real life examples of how to love, nurture and support their adoptee/foster child through good and greater times. Are you ready to read the most inspiring story of rejection, love and triumph?
"Willie Moore Jr. is by far one of the best storytellers of our time. The passion and love that he has for his forever family is contagious. I am sure these stories will inspire everyone who reads them.
-Kim Offutt, National Foster Care Adoption Director, BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES
"Parents, if you ever needed a positive voice to support you in your journey of fostering or adopting this is the perfect book. Every story carries a strong message of correcting with love, supporting with grace and parenting with the child's future in mind."
-Candis Jones, Georgia DFCS Independent Living, Program Director
"This book has helped me think like a successful person despite of my mistakes and shortcomings. Learning to honor my parents was hard but when I read the stories I can now see the connection between honoring my parents and becoming successful. Every foster child/adoptee should have this book. "
-State of Missouri Adoptee
Автор: Parsons Bonnie Название: Young Love: An Adoptee`s Memoir ISBN: 1525551302 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781525551307 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Young Love: An Adoptee`s Memoir describes the author`s lifelong, innate curiosity about her adoption. She was born in Catherine Booth Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and relinquished into foster care by her birth mother at six weeks. Adop...
Автор: SunAh M Laybourn Название: Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants ISBN: 1479814776 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479814770 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 11161.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
How Korean adoptees went from being adoptable orphans to deportable immigrants Since the early 1950s, over 125,000 Korean children have been adopted in the United States, primarily by white families. Korean adoptees figure in twenty-five percent of US transnational adoptions and are the largest group of transracial adoptees currently in adulthood. Despite being legally adopted, Korean adoptees' position as family members did not automatically ensure legal, cultural, or social citizenship. Korean adoptees routinely experience refusals of belonging, whether by state agents, laws, and regulations, in everyday interactions, or even through media portrayals that render them invisible. In Out of Place, SunAh M Laybourn, herself a Korean American adoptee, examines this long-term journey, with a particular focus on the race-making process and the contradictions inherent to the model minority myth. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Korean adoptee adults, online surveys, and participant observation at Korean adoptee events across the US and in Korea, Out of Place illustrates how Korean adoptees come to understand their racial positions, reconcile competing expectations of citizenship and racial and ethnic group membership, and actively work to redefine belonging both individually and collectively. In considering when and how Korean adoptees have been remade, rejected, and celebrated as exceptional citizens, Out of Place brings to the fore the features of the race-making process.
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