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 Allen, K.M., The Price We All Pay: Human Trafficking in International Adoption Adoption is already steeped in the legacy of loss for the child and his family. Add to this the recent revelations of the selling of babies for adoption in countries like Vietnam and India, and one needs only to reconsider who exactly is benefiting from adoption. Kevin Minh Allen, a Vietnamese adoptee, explores ways to effectively address this element of human trafficking. These include, but are not limited to, having the U.S. government sign the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and diverting funds away from the adoption industry and into worthwhile child welfare programs in their home countries. |
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Carp, E. W., Does Opening Adoption Have an Adverse Social Impact? This study provides an international history of the adoption reform movement in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia from 1953 to 2007. It empirically tests how safe birth parents and adopted adults are in countries that have opened their adoption records, usually birth reg- istration records, using contact preference forms and contact vetoes. The results of this investigation reveal that a vast gap exists between the fear by birth parents and adopted adults that their privacy will be invaded and their family disrupted and the reality that few or no offenses are committed. It follows that opening adoption records with contact preference forms or con- tact vetoes provides a balanced adoption disclosure system and is a viable alternative to the sealed adoption policies currently used in the vast majority of American states and Canadian provinces. |
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Carney, S., Meet the Parents: The Dark Side of Overseas Adoption A Midwestern kid's family believes his birth parents put him up for adoption. An Indian couple claim he was kidnapped from them and sold. Who's right? |
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Condit, Kelly. Familial Legacies: Rethinking Transnational Asian Adoption in the 21st Century Abstract: In correspondence to the world’s increasing transnational movements, parents in the United States are internationally adopting children at record rates. Between 1990 and 2005, international adoption more than tripled. At a startling average, 42.75% of these children came from East or Southeast Asian countries. Although statistics may be interpreted in various ways, the adoption rates since 1990 are inarguably indicative of a historically unprecedented explosion of transnational adoption. Demographically, culturally, and politically, adoptees, like multiracial Asian Americans, are transforming the face of Asian America. Their lived experiences, as well as the impact of their presence on the racial landscape of America must be examined. Transnational adoption must also be linked to Asian American histories and cultures and to formations of race, gender, and class both within the U.S. and across the globe. Examining transnational adoption histories, cultures, and experiences is crucial to rethinking the transnational configuration that is “Asian America.” An emergent constituent of the American demographic, American Studies has paid relatively little attention to this population. While I value the excellent new work on this topic by scholars such as Toby Alice Volkman and David L. Eng, transnational adoption remains severely underexamined and undertheorized in American Studies. At the same time, Asian adoptees are too often omitted from scholarship on U.S. transracial adoption, which is largely limited to a domestic black-white racial paradigm. In response to this gap, my work offers an interdisciplinary critique of transnational Asian adoption within the context of the American family. The heterosexual nuclear family has historically symbolized ideal visions of normative white American values and citizenship. Used to socially control and manage national productions of morality and racial purity, the American family and its domestic space have historically excluded Asian Americans. For example, only with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 could non-U.S. born Asian immigrants become naturalized American citizens, and not until 2000 were anti-miscegenation laws repealed from all U.S. states. In fierce contrast, the “color-blind” institution of transnational adoption places no limitations or restrictions on incoming adoptees based on race, and following the Child Citizenship Act of 2000, transnational adoptees are automatically granted citizenship upon entry into the United States. Thinking about the historical construction of the American nuclear family, the Asian American adoptee appears to occupy a highly contested and contradictory space. The adoptee’s main function is in the completion of a historically exclusionary, white American institution. However, the system of transnational adoption is “color-blind” and the popular discourse surrounding the institution is widely supportive and encouraging. Unlike the Native and African American communities, who have publicly spoken against transracial adoption as a form of cultural “genocide,” there is no national stigma against transnational Asian adoption and the Asian American community has remained comparably silent. Socially acceptable, transnational Asian adoption is exponentially increasing. Through a deconstructive reading of the adoptee’s role in family-making, I seek to illuminate the larger function of transnational adoption in perpetuating national constructions of family, citizenship, and white hegemony. |
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Dohle, A., Inside Story of an Adoption Scandal |
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Donaldson, E. B. A. I., Safeguarding the Rights and Well-Being of Bithmothers |
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Graff, E. J., The Lie We Love Foreign adoption seems like the perfect solution to a heartbreaking imbalance: Poor countries have babies in need of homes, and rich countries have homes in need of babies. Unfortunately, those little orphaned bundles of joy may not be orphans at all... |
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Gubeney, S., Transracial Adoption: Some Visions I Have Seen... What would the world look like if every parent – regardless of class, race, culture, or gender – had the opportunity to raise her own child? What if families had every opportunity to remain intact and children were not removed from their midst on a regular basis? |
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Hoogeveen, N., Are international Adoption Critics Really Wrong? Critique of a Barthelot article. |
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Hopgood, M-L, Another country, not my own One overseas adoptee explains: Parents’ embrace of the ”home” culture can have its costs |
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Joyce, Kathryn. Shotgun Adoption Kathryn Joyce writes about Crisis pregnancy centers in The Nation |
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Kang, SW, Holt International’s price for children Members of Adoptees Solidarity Korea (ASK) and KoRoot stage a performance calling for a “Day without Adoption” by placing coins in a shape of a plane to symbolize the 200 thousand children that have been sent abroad in exchange for money in the past 50 years, May 5, 2008. |
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Leo, K., Feminist Lens on Adoption |
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Meler, P. and Zhang, X., Sold Into Adoption: The Hunan Baby Trafficking Scandal Exposes Vulnerabilities in Chinese Adoptions to the U.S. |
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Meier, P. J., Small commodities: how child traffickers exploit children and families in intercountry adoption and what the United States must do to stop them Intercountry adoption involves parents who are citizens of one country adopting children who are citizens of another. It is a well-established method of creating or enlarging an American family. Americans adopt more foreign children each year than all other receiving countries combined. In 2006, 20,679 adoptees joined American families. This number has grown rapidly, nearly tripling since 1990, when Americans adopted 7093 foreign children. The total has surpassed 20,000 each year since 2002. (9) To date, 2004 marks the year the most children--22,884--became U.S. citizens through adoption. Child trafficking is buying, selling, or stealing children for personal gain. The illegal trade in children is one component of a wider global problem of human trafficking. Human trafficking is the third largest and fastest growing illegal trade in the world. Estimates of people trafficked annually range from 480,000 to 2.5 million. Those numbers likely do not include children trafficked for adoption because most discussions of human trafficking limit the definition to trafficking for an exploitive purpose, usually sex or forced labor. |
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Osreskovic, J. and Maskew, T., Red Thread or Slender Reed: Deconstructing Prof. Barthelot's Mythology of International Adoption What is the truth about numbers of orphans worldwide? |
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Post, Roelie. International Adoption: Child Protection or a Breach of Rights? AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2009 CONDUCIVE Author Roelie Post wants to distance herself from pro and anti-adoption labels and direct the discussion back to the heart of the matter: whether intercountry adoption is a child protection measure, if children have rights in their own country, and if intercountry adoption is ultimately a breach of such rights? Post ends with the crucial question: can intercountry adoption be legislated without it leading to a demand-driven child market? Romanian banned intercountry adoptions, Post will describe the experience and the consequences for other countries. |
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Riben, M. and Wright, B. Reverse Robinhoodism: Pitting Poor Against Affluent Women in the Adoption Industry Mirah Riben and Bernadette Wright argue that mothers’ rights are women’s rights. Women's rights mean recognizing mothers’ rights to parent their own children. |
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Riben, M., Big Business in Babies: Adoption, The Child Commodities Market Based on The Stork Market |
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Riben, M., Prophecy, Proselytizing and Profit: Adopting Christian Soldiers The pro adoption tactics of the right wing religious fundamentalists |
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