Cultures of transnational adoption  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Toby Alice Volkman. 
 - Durham, N.C. :  Duke University Press,  2005. 
 - 232 p. 
 - e-Duke books scholarly collection. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: New geographies of kinship / Toby Alice Volkman -- Part I. Displacements, roots, identities. Going "home": adoption, loss of bearings, and the mythology of roots / Barbara Yngvesson -- Wedding citizenship and culture: Korean adoptees and the global family of Korea / Eleana Kim -- Embodying Chinese culture: transnational adoption in North America / Toby Alice Volkman -- Part II. Counterparts. Chaobao: the plight of Chinese adoptive parents in the era of the one-child policy / Kay Johnson -- Patterns of shared parenthood among the Brazilian poor / Claudia Fonseca -- Birth mothers and imaginary lives / Laurel Kendall -- Part III. Representations. Images of "waiting children": spectatorship and pity in the representation of the global social orphan in the 1990s / Lisa Cartwright -- Phantom lives, narratives of possibility / Elizabeth Alice Honig. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Intercountry adoption.<br/>Cognition and culture.<br/>Kinship.<br/>Transnationalism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV875.5  / .C86 2005