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5%OFFEleana J. Kim - Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging - 9780822346951 - V9780822346951
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Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging

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Description for Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging Paperback. An ethnography examining the history of Korean adoption to West, the emergence of a distinctive adoptee collective identity, and adoptee returns to Korea in relation to South Korean modernity and globalization. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 photographs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 1KBB; JHBK; JKSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822346951
SKU
V9780822346951
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About Eleana J. Kim
Eleana J. Kim is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Rochester.

Reviews for Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging
“Adopted Territory is the best and most thorough treatment of transnational adoption that I have seen. Eleana J. Kim provides sophisticated analyses of Korean overseas adoption to the United States, and South Korean history and state politics, within the contexts of cold war geopolitics and the rise of the American empire, while also attending to issues of nation, race, citizenship, ... Read more

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