Babies Without Borders: Adoption and Migration Across the Americas - Couverture souple

Dubinsky, Karen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814720927 ISBN 13 : 9780814720929

Editeur : New York University Press, 2010

Synopsis

While international adoptions have risen in the public eye and recent scholarship has covered transnational adoption from Asia to the U.S., adoptions between North America and Latin America have been overshadowed and, in some cases, forgotten. In this nuanced study of adoption, Karen Dubinsky expands the historical record while she considers the political symbolism of children caught up in adoption and migration controversies in Canada, the United States, Cuba, and Guatemala.
Babies without Borders tells the interrelated stories of Cuban children caught in Operation Peter Pan, adopted Black and Native American children who became icons in the Sixties, and Guatemalan children whose "disappearance" today in transnational adoption networks echoes their fate during the country's brutal civil war. Drawing from archival research as well as from her critical observations as an adoptive parent, Dubinsky moves debates around transnational adoption beyond the current dichotomy--the good of "humanitarian rescue," against the evil of "imperialist kidnap." Integrating the personal with the scholarly, Babies without Borders exposes what happens when children bear the weight of adult political conflicts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Karen Dubinsky is a professor in the Department of Global Development Studies and the Department of History at Queen's University. She is the author of The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls and Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814720927
• ISBN 13: 9780814720929
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 210
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible