By Sara K. Dorow

Transnational Adoption

Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship


The author, Sara K. Dorow, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta. In this new effort, she provides an honest and intriguing look at some of the most difficult topics in adoption, in language that's sometimes painfully direct. In discussing the children who are available for adoption, for example, Dorow describes how the "industry" of adoption encourages the invisibility of special-needs children, while the "healthiest�€� and thus most "salable" children, get the best care in orphanages. She addresses institutional racism, gender and class issues in the specific context of US-Chinese adoptions, but her analysis has much broader applicability and covers the stories and practices that "legitimatize" transnational families; the strains placed upon our common notions of what motherhood means; and ways in which parents then construct the cultural and racial identities of adopted children. Paperback: 344 pages ISBN-10: 0814719724 ISBN-13: 978-0814719725
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