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.
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The experiences in this volume consider how trans-national adoption creates and transforms cultures, in the light of the vast increase in their number.
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