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Intercountry Adoption Migration Process: Cultural Challenges and Resources to Promote Psychosocial Well-being
Transracial adoptees represent a specific group of immigrants, living a unique “quiet migration” process as they enter host culture as individuals...
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Narrative Kinning in Contemporary Memoirs of Korean Adoption
This chapter explores the connection between life writing and kinship in a number of narratives by adoptees from South Korea to the US and Sweden. I...
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Biracial Families Formed Through Adoption
While the majority of biracial families are formed by adults of different races coming together, there are a growing number of biracial families that...
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Orphans, Displaced, and Institutionalized Children
Research shows that children separated from parents face adverse social, psychological, health, and economic outcomes. Most children in child welfare...
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International Adoption from China and India 1992–2018
This chapter compares and contrasts trends in international adoption in the two countries over a period of 27 years from 1992 to 2018. The data...
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8 Demography of Adoption
This chapter reviews demographic research focusing on the adoption of children. Included are the following topics: the construction of adoption and...
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Indigenizing the Social Work Curriculum: Why It Matters and How to Start?
Informative abstract:This chapter addresses the need for indigenizing the social work education curriculum. This is long overdue because,...
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Donors we choose: race, nation and the biopolitics of (queer) assisted reproduction in Scandinavia
In the 2000s, same sex partnership laws, new reproductive technologies, and legislation rendering lesbian couples and single women eligible for...
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Cultural Threat and Market Failure: Moral Decline Narratives on the Religious Right and Left
This chapter argues that religiopolitical movements on the right—Christian Nationalism—and left—Prophetic Progressivism—remain central to US politics...
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A Demographic Perspective on Childhood Adoptions in the U.S.
This chapter focuses on the U.S. as the nation with the largest number of adoptions. Although adoptions represent a small portion of family growth,...
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Introduction
The volume “Interculturality in institutions: symbols, practices, and identities” includes empirical papers, grounded on sounded methodological...
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Life’s continuation: repro-tech, biogenetic affinity, and racial capitalism
This paper examines the affinity ties of biological and familial whiteness in ART as evident in the 2014 Illinois Northern District Court case of Cramb...
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Lawfare and the Global Dialectics of Homophobia and Homonationalism in Trinidad and Tobago
This paper pursues a case study of the global dialectics of homophobia and homonationalism in Trinidad and Tobago to show that understanding Global...
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Gendering Transnationalism: Migration and Mobility in Longue Durée
In scholarship on international migration, the pioneering work of anthropologists in the 1990s ignited a surge of multidisciplinary studies on...
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The Emergence of the ‘New Wave’: Insider-Led Studies and Multifaceted Perceptions
As the 1980s unfolded, a ‘new wave’ of ‘insider-led studies’ began to emerge in scholarly fields that sought to redress the ‘deficit’ based...
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The Experience of Children and Families Involved with the Child Welfare System
Children who have experienced maltreatment and their families may come into contact with the child welfare system. These children are at risk for a...
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Introduction
As professional women in biracial families, we took on this book project for three main reasons. First, we are all too familiar with...
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Popular Media Representations
With much of the general public gaining information from the popular media, particularly on subjects that are sensitive, misrepresentation can be...
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Defining Marriage and Families: Data and Measurement
This chapter provides an overview of survey and administrative data available in the U.S. to study families. Easy access to large datasets,...
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New Directions
Biracial families are formed and develop in many of the same ways as other families. Two people develop a mutual affection, establish a partnership,...