| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 204 pages) |
| Contents |
Children, law, and belonging -- Community, identity, and the importance of belonging -- Rainbow dreams and domestic transracial adoption -- Reclaiming the diaspora and American Indian children -- Transnational adoption in a shifting world |
| Summary |
"This book explores the debate over communal and cultural belonging in three contexts: domestic transracial adoptions of non-American Indian children, the scope of tribal authority over American Indian children, and cultural and communal belonging for transnationally adopted children"-- Provided by publisher |
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"Providing families for children in need is unquestionably a worthy goal. Adoption conjures soft-focus images of abandoned and vulnerable innocents welcomed into families who can love and nurture them. People who choose to engage in stranger adoptions - adoptions that do not involve kin or stepparents - are typically motivated both by a desire to become a parent and by a wish to do good in the world. The families thus created are, in fact, miraculous, and these families often work hard not only to provide for a found and chosen child but to give back to the communities from which the child originated. The uplifting story of family creation enabled by adoption, however, tows a darker story of marginalization and loss in its wake. Historically, adoption in the United States was not simply about providing care for needy children; it was also explicitly driven by the desire to move children from unsuitable to suitable families"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Interracial adoption -- United States
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Interethnic adoption -- United States
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Intercountry adoption -- United States
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Adopted children -- United States
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Ethnicity.
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Indian foster children -- United States
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ethnicity.
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LAW -- Family Law -- General.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Abuse -- Child Abuse.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Adoption & Fostering.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- General.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- Parent & Adult Child.
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Adopted children
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Ethnicity
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Indian foster children
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Intercountry adoption
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Interethnic adoption
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Interracial adoption
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139569101 |
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1139569104 |
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9781139084758 |
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1139084755 |
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6613951129 |
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9786613951120 |
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1283638665 |
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9781283638661 |
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9781139570916 |
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1139570919 |
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9781139572668 |
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1139572660 |
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