Global Families A History of Asian International Adoption in America

Name: Global Families A History of Asian International Adoption in America
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ISBN: 9781479892174

ISBN-10: 1479892173

ISBN-13: 9781479892174

Edition: 2013

Authors: Catherine Ceniza Choy

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In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian international adoption to flourish. In Global Families, Catherine Ceniza Choy unearths the little-known historical origins of Asian international adoption in the United States. Beginning with the post-World War II presence of the U.S. military in Asia, she reveals how mixed-race children born of Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese women and U.S. servicemen comprised one of the earliest groups of adoptive…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 10/11/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Catherine Ceniza Choy is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of the award-winning book Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History .



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: International Adoption Nation



Race and Rescue in Early Asian International Adoption History



The Hong Kong Project: Chinese International Adoption in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s



A World Vision: The Labor of Asian International Adoption



Global Family Making: Narratives by and about Adoptive Families



To Make Historical Their Own Stories: Adoptee Narratives as Asian American History


Conclusion: New Geographies, Historical Legacies


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author