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Disrupting Kinship

- Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States
Af: Kimberly D. McKee Engelsk Hardback

Disrupting Kinship

- Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States
Af: Kimberly D. McKee Engelsk Hardback
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Since the Korean War began, Western families have adopted more than 200,000 Korean children. Two-thirds of these adoptees found homes in the United States. The majority joined white families and in the process forged a new kind of transnational and transracial kinship. Kimberly D. McKee examines the growth of the neocolonial, multi-million-dollar global industry that shaped these families—a system she identifies as the transnational adoption industrial complex. As she shows, an alliance of the South Korean welfare state, orphanages, adoption agencies, and American immigration laws powered transnational adoption between the two countries. Adoption became a tool to supplement an inadequate social safety net for South Korea's unwed mothers and low-income families. At the same time, it commodified children, building a market that allowed Americans to create families at the expense of loving, biological ties between Koreans. McKee also looks at how Christian Americanism, South Korean welfare policy, and other facets of adoption interact with and disrupt American perceptions of nation, citizenship, belonging, family, and ethnic identity.
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Since the Korean War began, Western families have adopted more than 200,000 Korean children. Two-thirds of these adoptees found homes in the United States. The majority joined white families and in the process forged a new kind of transnational and transracial kinship. Kimberly D. McKee examines the growth of the neocolonial, multi-million-dollar global industry that shaped these families—a system she identifies as the transnational adoption industrial complex. As she shows, an alliance of the South Korean welfare state, orphanages, adoption agencies, and American immigration laws powered transnational adoption between the two countries. Adoption became a tool to supplement an inadequate social safety net for South Korea's unwed mothers and low-income families. At the same time, it commodified children, building a market that allowed Americans to create families at the expense of loving, biological ties between Koreans. McKee also looks at how Christian Americanism, South Korean welfare policy, and other facets of adoption interact with and disrupt American perceptions of nation, citizenship, belonging, family, and ethnic identity.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 250
ISBN-13: 9780252042287
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 025204228X
Kategori: Social- & Kulturhistorie
Udg. Dato: 2 mar 2019
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: University of Illinois Press
Oplagsdato: 2 mar 2019
Forfatter(e): Kimberly D. McKee
Forfatter(e) Kimberly D. McKee

Kategori Social- & Kulturhistorie

ISBN-13 9780252042287

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 250

Udgave

Længde 23mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 2 mar 2019

Oplagsdato 2 mar 2019

Forlag University of Illinois Press

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