Kim, Eleana Jean, 1971-

Adopted territory : transnational Korean adoptees and the politics of belonging / Eleana J. Kim. - Durham [NC] ; London : Duke University Press, 2010. - xviii, 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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.

9780822346838 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822346951 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2010024148


Primera Jornada de Catalogacion.
Intercountry adoption--Korea (South).
Intercountry adoption--United States.
Adoptees--Korea (South)
Adoptees--United States.
Adopción internacional--Corea del Sur.
Adopción internacional--Estados Unidos.
Adoptados--Corea del Sur.
Adoptados--Estados Unidos.

HV 875.5 / K49a 2010

306.874