Adopted territory
Subtitle: transnational Korean adoptees and the politics of belonging
By: Eleana J. Kim
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780822346838; 9780822346951
Subjects: Intercountry adoption; Adoptees
Description: Since the end of the Korean War, 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America, Europe and Australia. This book examines the history of Korean adoption, the emergence of an adoptee collective identity and adoptee returns to Korea in reltion to South Korean modernity and globalization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-309) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: understanding transnational Korean adoption; title: "Waifs" and "orphans": the origins of Korean adoption; title: Adoptee kinship; title: Adoptee cultural citizenship; title: Public intimacies and private politics; title: Our adoptee, our alien: adoptees as specters of family and foreignness in global Korea; title: Made in Korea: adopted Koreans and native Koreans in the motherland; title: Beyond good and evil: the moral economies of children and their best interests in a global age.