The kinning of foreigners : transnational adoption in a global perspective
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The kinning of foreigners : transnational adoption in a global perspective
Berghahn Books, 2007, c2006
- pbk.
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
-
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
pbk.361.63||How200008561184
Note
Bibliography: p. [235]-244
Includes index
First published in 2006
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Since the late nineteen sixties, transnational adoption has emerged as a global phenomenon. Due to a sharp decline in infants being made available for adoption locally, involuntarily childless couples in Western Europe and North America who wish to create a family, have to look to look to countries in the poor South and Eastern Europe. The purpose of this book is to locate transnational adoption within a broad context of contemporary Western life, especially values concerning family, children and meaningful relatedness, and to explore the many ambiguities and paradoxes that the practice entails. Based on empirical research from Norway, the author identifies three main themes for analysis: Firstly, by focusing on the perceived relationship between biology and sociality, she examines how notions of child, childhood and significant relatedness vary across time and space. She argues that through a process of kinning, persons are made into kin. In the case of adoption, kinning overcomes a dominant cultural emphasis placed upon biological connectedness. Secondly, it is a study of the rise of expert knowledge in the understanding of 'the best interest of the child', and how the part played by the 'psycho.technocrats' effects national and international policy and practice of transnational adoption. Thirdly, it shows how transnational adoption both depends upon and helps to foster the globalisation of Western rationality and morality. The book is an original contribution to the anthropological study of kinship and globalisation.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: ADOPTION - BIOLOGY OR SOCIALITY?
Chapter 1. Desire and Rights: Transnational Movement of Substances and Concepts
Chapter 2. A Changing World of Families: An Overview
Chapter 3. Kinship with Strangers: Values and Practices of Adoption
Chapter 4. Kinning and Transubstantiation: Norwegianisation of Adoptees
Chapter 5. Expert Knowledge: The Role of Psychology in Adoption Discourses
Chapter 6. Who Am I, Then? Adoptees' Perspectives on Identity and Ethnicity
PART II: GOVERNMENTALITY AND THE ROLE OF PSYCHO-TECHNOCRATS
Chapter 7. Benevolent Control: Adoption Legislation in the USA and Norway
Chapter 8. Benevolent Control: International Treaties on Adoption
Chapter 9. Expert Knowledge: Global and Local Adoption Discourses in India, Ethiopia, China and Romania
Chapter 10. In Conclusion: To Kin a Foreign Child
Postscript: A Note on Methods
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"