Introduction: understanding transnational Korean adoption -- "Waifs" and "orphans" : the origins of Korean adoption -- Adoptee kinship -- Adoptee cultural citizenship -- Public intimacies and private politics -- Our adoptee, our alien : adoptees as specters of family and foreignness in global Korea -- Made in Korea : adopted Koreans and native Koreans in the motherland -- Beyond good and evil : the moral economies of children and their best interests in a global age
Summary
An ethnography documenting the experience of South Koreans adopted by American parents
