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Adopted territory : transnational Korean adoptees and the politics of belonging / Eleana J. Kim.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham [NC] ; London : Duke University Press, 2010.Description: xviii, 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780822346838 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822346951 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.874
LOC classification:
  • HV 875.5 K49a 2010
Contents:
Introduction: understanding transnational Korean adoption -- "Waifs" and "orphans": the origins of Korean adoption -- Adoptee kinship -- Adoptee cultural citizenship -- Public intimacies and private politics -- Our adoptee, our alien: adoptees as specters of family and foreignness in global Korea -- Made in Korea: adopted Koreans and native Koreans in the motherland -- Beyond good and evil: the moral economies of children and their best interests in a global age.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HV 875.5 K49a 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000107460

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-309) and index.

Introduction: understanding transnational Korean adoption -- "Waifs" and "orphans": the origins of Korean adoption -- Adoptee kinship -- Adoptee cultural citizenship -- Public intimacies and private politics -- Our adoptee, our alien: adoptees as specters of family and foreignness in global Korea -- Made in Korea: adopted Koreans and native Koreans in the motherland -- Beyond good and evil: the moral economies of children and their best interests in a global age.

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