... adoptees: Report on the findings . New York: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute. Fraser, Nancy. 1992 . Rethinking the public sphere: A contribution to the critique of actually existing democracy. In Habermas and the public sphere , edited by Craig Calhoun. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Gathering...

... mother even before she can exchange her mother for her father, and where the daughter is exchanged precisely not to extend kinship ties between the biological and adoptive families. Through a reading of Jane Jeong Trenka's 2003 The Language of Blood , a memoir of growing up as a Korean adoptee...

..., to the more affluent West? The essays in this issue explore transnational adoption from multiple perspectives, encompassing both “sending” and “receiving” countries: birth parents who relinquish children, adoptive parents and adopted children, and adult adoptees. All of the essays view adoption as situated...

... tjockare än vatten [Blood is thicker than water]. Stockholm:Bonniers. Verhovek, Sam H. 2000 . Debate on adoptees' rights stirs Oregon. New York Times , 5 April. von Melen, Anna. 1998 . Samtal med vuxna adopterade [Conversations with adult adoptees] . Stockholm: Raben Prisma/NIA. Yngvesson...

.... Is the transnational adoptee an immigrant? Is she, as in those cases such as Borshay Liem’s, Social Text 76, Vol. 21, No. 3, Fall 2003. Copyright © 2003 by David L. Eng. an Asian American? Even more, is her adoptive family Asian American? How is the “otherness...

.... Families with Children from China 7 : 18 -19. Eggert, David. 2002 . By sheer chance, Chinese twin toddlers are reunited. Seattle Post-Intelligencer , 4 April. Eisenberg, Freda. 2002. jwffc@yahoogroups.com . Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute. 1999 . Survey of adult Korean adoptees: Report...

... of Bearings, and the Mythology of Roots Barbara Yngvesson 7 Embodying Chinese Culture: Transnational Adoption in North America Toby Alice Volkman 29 Wedding Citizenship and Culture: Korean Adoptees and the Global Family of Korea Eleana Kim 57 Photographs of “Waiting Children...

... of Bearings, and the Mythology of Roots Barbara Yngvesson 7 Embodying Chinese Culture: Transnational Adoption in North America Toby Alice Volkman 29 Wedding Citizenship and Culture: Korean Adoptees and the Global Family of Korea Eleana Kim 57 Photographs of “Waiting Children...

...-town prostitute to become the respectable military wife or the conditioning of white Americans so that they were able to imagine adoptees from Asia as members of their families. 2 Further, they have created analytics by which to read for the legacies and ghosts of previous modes of racialization...

... in the new house. We do not know if he is an employee, a servant, an “adoptee,” a prisoner, or an in-­patient in some kind of rehab clinic. He is subjected — though not forcibly — to being kept in a place that grants him room and board without knowing...

... by a comparison of fosterage and adoption rates. That year, three children had been given in adoption for each child placed in state-funded foster care (243 adoptees as opposed to 80 children in foster homes) (Car- darello 2000). Today, while adoptions remain at some 200 per year, insti- tutional care is once...

...” potential adoptees to include, in a serious way, U.S. foster children. In part, this effort mapped onto changes in the way race was being defined, among the social and also, as always, a shift in poverty policy. Not coincidentally, welfare reform and adoption reform were coupled; indeed, both were...

... into their homes and counseled them on spiritual concerns. The political violence that ushered in the Washington Consensus literal physical cleared a space for the program’s symbolic adoptees. “I remember the años ochenta,” recounted one...

... diagnosed with FAS and FAE (fetal alcohol effect) among Russian adoptees as compared to the figures for children adopted from countries including Guatemala and India.23 Facial features have been regarded as the most reliable indicator of FAS...