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Title Adoption and multiculturalism : Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific / Jenny Heijun Wills, Tobias Hübinette, and Indigo Willing
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (277 pages)
Summary "Adoption and Multiculturalism features the voices of international scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble common understandings about who is being adopted, who is adopting, and where these acts are taking place, challenging in fascinating ways the tidy master narrative of saviorhood and the concept of a monolithic Western receiving nation. Too often the presumption is that the adoptive and receiving country is one that celebrates racial and ethnic diversity, thus making it superior to the conservative and insular places from which adoptees arrive. The volume's contributors subvert the often simplistic ways that multiculturalism is linked to transnational and transracial adoption and reveal how troubling multiculturalism in fact can be. The contributors represent a wide range of disciplines, cultures, and connections in relation to the adoption constellation, bringing perspectives from Europe (including Scandinavia), Canada, the United States, and Australia. The book brings together the various methodologies of literary criticism, history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural theory to demonstrate the multifarious and robust ways that adoption and multiculturalism might be studied and considered. Edited by three transnational and transracial adoptees, Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific offers bold new scholarship that revises popular notions of transracial and transnational adoption as practice and phenomenon"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 03, 2020)
Subject Adoption -- Social aspects
Intercountry adoption.
Interracial adoption.
Multiculturalism.
Adoptive parents -- Psychology
multiculturalism.
Adoption -- Social aspects
Adoptive parents -- Psychology
Intercountry adoption
Interracial adoption
Multiculturalism
Form Electronic book
Author Wills, Jenny Heijun, editor.
Hübinette, Tobias, 1971- editor.
Willing, Indigo A.W., 1971- editor.
LC no. 2020017969
ISBN 9780472126811
0472126814