Links between past, present, and future: context for understanding communication in reunion -- Initial meetings: communicating family with "strangers" -- Korean birth parents, Westernized adoptees: navigating the terrain of cultural differences during reunion -- (Not) ppeaking Korean: learning to communicate with family across languages -- Adoptees in-between: communicating family with birth parents and adoptive parents -- Long-term relationships with birth families: communicating across space, time, and difference -- Concluding recommendations -- Coda -- Korean, adopted, and reunited during a pandemic -- Interview guides
Summary
"Over 200,000 transnational Korean adoptees live throughout the world today, and many have searched for, and reunited with, birth family members. In this book, Sara Docan-Morgan examines how Korean adoptees from the USA and Denmark navigate reunions with their Korean birth families and attempt to maintain these relationships over time"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 07, 2023)
