Children and the politics of cultural belonging
Machine generated contents note: 1. Children, law, and belonging; 2. Community, identity, and the importance of belonging; 3. Rainbow dreams and domestic transracial adoption; 4. Reclaiming the diaspora: American Indian children; 5. Transnational adoption in a shifting world; 6. Conclusion.
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge u.a.
Cambridge University Press
2012
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
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| Online Zugang: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Autorenbiografie Verlagsangaben |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note: 1. Children, law, and belonging; 2. Community, identity, and the importance of belonging; 3. Rainbow dreams and domestic transracial adoption; 4. Reclaiming the diaspora: American Indian children; 5. Transnational adoption in a shifting world; 6. Conclusion. Machine generated contents note: 1. Children, law, and belonging; 2. Community, identity, and the importance of belonging; 3. Rainbow dreams and domestic transracial adoption; 4. Reclaiming the diaspora: American Indian children; 5. Transnational adoption in a shifting world; 6. Conclusion "Providing families for children in need is unquestionably a worthy goal. Adoption conjures soft-focus images of abandoned and vulnerable innocents welcomed into families who can love and nurture them. People who choose to engage in stranger adoptions - adoptions that do not involve kin or stepparents - are typically motivated both by a desire to become a parent and by a wish to do good in the world. The families thus created are, in fact, miraculous, and these families often work hard not only to provide for a found and chosen child but to give back to the communities from which the child originated. The uplifting story of family creation enabled by adoption, however, tows a darker story of marginalization and loss in its wake. Historically, adoption in the United States was not simply about providing care for needy children; it was also explicitly driven by the desire to move children from unsuitable to suitable families"-- "Providing families for children in need is unquestionably a worthy goal. Adoption conjures soft-focus images of abandoned and vulnerable innocents welcomed into families who can love and nurture them. People who choose to engage in stranger adoptions - adoptions that do not involve kin or stepparents - are typically motivated both by a desire to become a parent and by a wish to do good in the world. The families thus created are, in fact, miraculous, and these families often work hard not only to provide for a found and chosen child but to give back to the communities from which the child originated. The uplifting story of family creation enabled by adoption, however, tows a darker story of marginalization and loss in its wake. Historically, adoption in the United States was not simply about providing care for needy children; it was also explicitly driven by the desire to move children from unsuitable to suitable families"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 204 S. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781107017863 978-1-107-01786-3 |