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...Kathryn E. Goldfarb Abstract This article explores the legal norms and regulatory mechanisms in Japan that structure child welfare placement decisions, focusing specifically on the legal category of “parental rights.” It is suggested that the ways child welfare officers and caregivers understand...

... of the transnational movement of children reflect both broader neoliberal ideologies of family and selfhood and late socialist anxieties about class differentiation. Child welfare professionals, the media, and casual observers in Ho Chi Minh City explain rising adoption rates as due to the desperation, ignorance...

...: for instance, military regulations, child welfare policies, and laws regulating assisted reproductive technology use. 2 The special issue treats legal and bureaucratic institutions as regulatory processes that adapt flexibly to different contexts while retaining a coherence that enables them to forge...

.... The dearth of child welfare resources has led local authorities to engage in a growing number of collaborations with foreign humanitarian organizations as a way to make ends meet. I first learned about Tomorrow’s Children in the summer of 2005 when...

...: Child Welfare and Well-Being in Japan. Timothy Gitzen is a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong; he received his PhD in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Minnesota. His research examines the intersection of national security...

.... Although ECPATpurports (and, no doubt, believes itself to be) a diverse cam- paign made up of international and national religious organizations, child welfare agencies, civic groups, and concerned individuals, it is in fact domi- nated...

... the death of both parents: “Mother deceased in 1962; father deceased in 1963, the child was placed in orphanage by the City Child Welfare Section.” Based on the report, the Certificate of Orphanhood was signed by the adoption agency director. The release form, tightly shot, shows a carbon copy of a form...

... and their correlative duties because of a dual perception lacuna: on issues of migration, they have focused on adults; on issues of child welfare, they have focused on citizens” (19). In many subregions of Asia, human mobility is typically perceived as a challenge to norms of state sovereignty and noninterference...

...Josephine Chuen-juei Ho Since the lifting of martial law in 1987, Taiwan has prided itself on steady progress toward liberal democracy with an ever-broadening understanding of human rights that now allegedly includes the rights of gays and lesbians. Yet at the same time, under the child-protection...

... of Health, Labour, and Welfare . 2012 . “ Menkai kōryū no jisshi jōkyō ” 面会交流の実施状況 (“Status of Visitation and Contact”). Heisei 23-nendo zenkoku boshi setai-tō chōsa kekka no gaiyō 平成23年度全国母子世帯等調査結果報告 ( 2012 National Survey of Mother-Child Households ). www.mhlw.go.jp/seisakunitsuite/bunya/kodomo...

... jiankang weiyuanhui 国家卫生健康委员会 (National Health Commission) also launched a pilot project with Zhongguo renkou fuli jijinhui 中国人口福利基金会 (China Population Welfare Foundation), entitled Chuangjian xingfu jiating huodong 创建幸福家庭活动 (Movement for Building Happy Families). The movement has made scientific child...

... explained how she was fearful of the corruptive influence homosexuality could have on her son during his military service and how this would devastate her family. Her fear, echoed by many that day, was about the future of her child and her family. At the center of this panic is the mechanism...

... suggest that “family stability and qual- ity have become increasingly linked to having suf cient resources to ensure proper education and health” of children. These logics have gained currency through the proliferation of child and family welfare...

... between parent and child is no longer simple or self-­evident, when the parent has failed to guarantee the welfare of the child. When the Chen ❘ Sovereignty, Coinage, and Kinship 653 sovereign buys back the children, he recodes...

... Boran is a Cambodian refugee who as a very young child came to the United States with his family in the s, having ed the brutal Khmer Rouge. After serving a sentence for a crime he committed as a young man, he was not released but instead...

... of desires condenses. In this sense, adoption, as Barbara Yngvesson argues, operates “as a kind of legal laundering of a child.”9 Borshay Liem’s film provides a meditation on this fungibility: positions 23:4  November 2015...

... rethought and replaced. That it could not be any more a question of reforming specific practices and rules—be they those of the neoliberal economy or of the police state—or of providing some extra welfare benefits in times of crisis; it was the way we think about our world, the forms of its politics...

... it engenders through an earth- bound authority. Heaven imparts its mandate to a family or an individual, sworn to protect the welfare of the masses and rule over them with justice and fairness. When a ruler or dynasty fails in this task...

... Studies of Family Law Exceptionalism .” American Journal of Comparative Law 58 , no. 4 : 753 – 75 . Hertog Ekaterina . 2009 . Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitimate Child in Contemporary Japan . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Inoue Haruyo . 1986 . Onna no namae o...

... making allowed by the state: the heterosexual, monogamous, married couple. Marriage remains the exclusive arena for reproduction both legally and socially, as it is generally assumed that marriage should precede childbirth and that childbirth should happen within marriage. Bearing a child is commonly...