Adopted territory: transnational Korean adoptees and the politics of belonging by Elena J. Kim
Book review
Article Title | Adopted territory: transnational Korean adoptees and the politics of belonging by Elena J. Kim |
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ERA Journal ID | 7255 |
Article Category | Book review |
Authors | |
Author | Gehrmann, Richard |
Journal Title | Intersections: gender and sexuality in Asia and the Pacific |
Journal Citation | 37 |
Year | 2015 |
Place of Publication | Australia |
ISSN | 1440-9151 |
Web Address (URL) | http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue37_contents.htm |
Abstract | This records the experience of Korean-born adult adoptees, a significant global community of over 200,000 people living primarily in the United States, but with members located worldwide. The global community of intercountry adoptees represents a migration of children from the global South to the global North, and Kim examines the historical framework of this adoption process that began following the devastation of the Korean War. The arrival and settlement of child adoptees with their new family is considered, as is the development of bi-cultural identity and the phenomena of revisiting the country of origin on adulthood. This account realigns established images away from the Hollywood hype, and away from images of the adoptee as a rescued victim orphan, and instead presents adoptees as adults making their own life choices. The post Cold War era of globalisation is sometimes referred to as a borderless world, and the experience of intercountry adoptees constitutes part of this discourse. |
Keywords | intercountry adoption, South Korea, transnational, identity, migration, borderless world |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 440303. Migration |
441013. Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism | |
430301. Asian history | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Arts and Communication |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q33w1/adopted-territory-transnational-korean-adoptees-and-the-politics-of-belonging-by-elena-j-kim
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