Disrupting Kinship

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  • Disrupting Kinship Book Detail

  • Author : Kimberly D. McKee
  • Release Date : 2019-03-02
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 346
  • ISBN 13 : 0252051122
  • File Size : 38,38 MB
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Disrupting Kinship by Kimberly D. McKee PDF Summary

Book Description: Since the Korean War began, Western families have adopted more than 200,000 Korean children. Two-thirds of these adoptees found homes in the United States. The majority joined white families and in the process forged a new kind of transnational and transracial kinship. Kimberly D. McKee examines the growth of the neocolonial, multi-million-dollar global industry that shaped these families—a system she identifies as the transnational adoption industrial complex. As she shows, an alliance of the South Korean welfare state, orphanages, adoption agencies, and American immigration laws powered transnational adoption between the two countries. Adoption became a tool to supplement an inadequate social safety net for South Korea's unwed mothers and low-income families. At the same time, it commodified children, building a market that allowed Americans to create families at the expense of loving, biological ties between Koreans. McKee also looks at how Christian Americanism, South Korean welfare policy, and other facets of adoption interact with and disrupt American perceptions of nation, citizenship, belonging, family, and ethnic identity.

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