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Adopted Territory – Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging

Autor Eleana J. Kim
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 noi 2010
Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America, Europe and Australia. While these transnational adoptions were initiated as an emergency measure to find homes for mixed-race children born in the aftermath of the war, the practice grew exponentially from the 1960s until the 1980s. At the height of South Korea’s “economic miracle,” adoption became an institutionalized way of dealing with poor and illegitimate children. Most of the adoptees were raised with little exposure to Koreans or other Korean adoptees, but as adults, through global flows of communication, media and travel, they came into increasing contact with each other, Korean culture, and the South Korean state. Since the 1990s, as infants continue to leave Korea for adoption to the West, a growing number of adult adoptees have been returning to seek their cultural and biological origins. In this fascinating ethnography, Eleana J. Kim examines the history of Korean adoption, the emergence of a distinctive adoptee collective identity and adoptee returns to Korea in relation to South Korean modernity and globalization. Kim draws on interviews with adult adoptees, social workers, NGO volunteers, adoptee activists, scholars and journalists in the U.S., Europe and South Korea, as well as on observations at international adoptee conferences, regional organization meetings and government-sponsored motherland tours.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822346951
ISBN-10: 0822346958
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 15 photographs, 4 tables
Dimensiuni: 161 x 237 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

Acknowledgments; Notes on Transliteration, Terminology, and Pseudonyms; Abbreviations Introduction: Understanding Transnational Korean AdoptionPart I1.“Waifs” and “Orphans”: The Origins of Korean Adoption; 2. Adoptee Kinship; 3. Adoptee Cultural Citizenship; 4. Public Intimacies and Private PoliticsPart II 5. Our Adoptee, Our Alien: Adoptees as Specters of Family and Foreignness in Global Korea ; 6. Made in Korea: Adopted Koreans and “Native Koreans” in the Motherland; 7. Beyond Good and Evil: The Moral Economies of Children and Their Best Interests in a Global AgeNotes; Works Cited; Index

Recenzii

"Adopted Territory is the best and most thorough treatment of [this topic] transnational adoption that I have seen. Eleana J. Kim provides sophisticated analyses of Korean overseas adoption to the United States and South Korean history and state politics, all within the contexts of cold war geopolitics and the rise of the American empire, as well as issues of nation, race, citizenship, gender, social class, and culture. The breadth, depth, and scope of Kim’s analyses contribute importantly to our understanding of the people and the phenomenon. Her well-contextualized and sensitive discussions of adoptee subjectivities are of particular interest.” Elaine H. Kim, University of California, Berkeley"Adopted Territory is amazing: deeply felt, moving, and true. It is an exemplary work of the new ‘transnationalism’ scholarship, and it moves adoption scholarship beyond some unhelpful ideas that haunt the field. Eleana J. Kim is both detached and engaged, embracing ambiguity and irony, while valuing the multiple kinds of ethnographic subjects she studies and the labor of identity-making by the Korean adoptees. In addition, the history of the emergent networks of Korean adoptees has not been told, and I imagine that its existence will come as a revelation for many.” Laura Briggs, co-editor of International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children"This truly remarkable ethnography chronicles the birth and first generation of the global Korean adoptee movement. Adopted Territory brilliantly asserts that the movement is born of a powerful historical conjuncture among the U.S. Millennial culture of multiculturalism, South Korea’s aggressive globalization regimes and emergent democratic civil society, and adoptees coming of age. Adopted Territory also offers a sophisticated study of family, kinship, and nation through the challenging lens of adoption, which Eleana J. Kim declares a veritable ‘catalyst for social transformation.’ A beautifully crafted multisited ethnography, Adopted Territory will no doubt enjoy a vibrant intellectual life.”--Nancy Abelmann, author of The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation

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"This truly remarkable ethnography chronicles the birth and first generation of the global Korean adoptee movement. "Adopted Territory" brilliantly asserts that the movement is born of a powerful historical conjuncture among: the U.S.'s millennial culture of multiculturalism; South Korea's aggressive globalization regimes and emergent democratic civil society; and adoptees coming of age. "Adopted Territory" offers also a sophisticated study of family, kinship, and nation through the challenging lens of adoption which Eleana J. Kim declares a veritable 'catalyst for social transformation.' A beautifully crafted multi-sited ethnography, "Adopted Territory" will no doubt enjoy a vibrant intellectual life."--Nancy Abelmann, author of "The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation"

Notă biografică

Eleana J. Kim

Descriere

An ethnography documenting the experience of South Koreans adopted by American parents