It is misleading to conceptualize the needs and concerns of prospective parents as being somehow outside of or separate from the needs and concerns of the nation. Individuals who adopt from abroad do so within a particular domestic/international/political context. Their needs and desires are socially constructed and emerge out of the same domestic/international/political and economic context as the policies that formally address national needs and concerns. —Kirsten Lovelock, “Intercountry Adoption as a Migratory Practice”; International Migration Review
Transracial Eyes Posts and Comments- The Anti-Antiadoption Discourse in “Response” to a New ExposeA researcher, or perhaps a journalist, Kathryn Boyce has recently written an expose, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption (published 23 April 2013), on how evangelical Christians are preaching the new gospel of adoption. I haven’t read the book; I’m flagging it down here in case someone wants to. My […]
- YOUR PARTICIPATION IS VALUABLE TO MY STUDY!This is quoted from a “comment” from a grad student in clinical psychology. What do you think of those who want to “study” us? Your participation is valuable to my desire to bang my head against a wall.
- Have we created an adoptee ghetto?
- The Anti-Antiadoption Discourse in “Response” to a New Expose
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