Out of place : the lives of Korean adoptee immigrants /
"Since the early 1950s, over 125,000 Korean children have been adopted in the United States, primarily by white families. Korean adoptees figure in twenty-five percent of US transnational adoptions and are the largest group of transracial adoptees currently in adulthood. Despite being legally a...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2024]
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| Col·lecció: | Asian American sociology series.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.25968866 |
| Sumari: | "Since the early 1950s, over 125,000 Korean children have been adopted in the United States, primarily by white families. Korean adoptees figure in twenty-five percent of US transnational adoptions and are the largest group of transracial adoptees currently in adulthood. Despite being legally adopted, Korean adoptees' position as family members did not automatically ensure legal, cultural, or social citizenship. Korean adoptees routinely experience refusals of belonging, whether by state agents, laws, and regulations, in everyday interactions, or even through media portrayals that render them invisible. In Out of Place, SunAh M Laybourn, herself a Korean American adoptee, examines this long-term journey, with a particular focus on the race-making process and the contradictions inherent to the model minority myth." -- |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (227 pages) |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479814831 1479814830 9781479814787 1479814784 1479814776 9781479814770 |