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Auteur(s) : Choy, Catherine Ceniza (1969-....)
Titre(s) : Global families [Texte imprimé] : a history of Asian international adoption in America / Catherine Ceniza Choy
Publication : New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Description matérielle : xv, 229 pages ; 24 cm
Collection : Nation of newcomers
Lien à la collection : Nation of newcomers
Comprend : Race and rescue in early Asian international adoption history ; The Hong Kong project:
Chinese international adoption in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s ; A world
vision : the labor of Asian international adoption ; Global family making : narratives
by and about adoptive families ; To make historical their own storie : adoptee narratives
as Asian American history ; Conclusion : new geographies, historical legacies.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and index
In the last fifty years, transnational adoption--specifically, the adoption of Asian
children--has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite
the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid
to the factors that allowed Asian international adoption to flourish. In Global Families,
Catherine Ceniza Choy unearths the little-known historical origins of Asian international
adoption in the United States. Beginning with the post-World War II presence of the
U.S. military in Asia, she reveals how mixed-race children born of Japanese, Korean,
and Vietnamese women and U.S. servicemen comprised one of the earliest groups of adoptive
children. Based on extensive archival research, Global Families moves beyond one-dimensional
portrayals of Asian international adoption as either a progressive form of U.S. multiculturalism
or as an exploitative form of cultural and economic imperialism. Rather, Choy acknowledges
the complexity of the phenomenon, illuminating both its radical possibilities of a
world united across national, cultural, and racial divides through family formation
and its strong potential for reinforcing the very racial and cultural hierarchies
it sought to challenge. -- Publisher website
Sujet(s) : Adoption internationale -- Asie
Adoption internationale -- États-Unis
Enfants adoptés -- États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780814717226 (cl) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0814717225 (cl) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9781479892174 (pb) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1479892173 (pb) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43723282z
Notice n° :
FRBNF43723282
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