Leinaweaver Adoptive Migration

Raising Latinos in Spain
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7751-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Focused on Peruvian adoptees and immigrants in Spain, this ethnography explores the adopted children's experience of growing up in a country that discriminates against their fellow immigrants.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leinaweaver, Jessaca B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Comparing Adoption and Migration 1

1. Waiting for a Baby: Adopting the Ideal Immigrant 25

2. The Best Interests of a Migrant's Child: Separating Families or Displacing Children? 47

3. Mixed Marriages: Migrants and Adoption 66

4. Undomesticated Adoption: Adopting the Children of Immigrants 84

5. Solidarity: Postadoptive Overtures 102

6. Becoming and Unbecoming Peruvian: Culture, Ethnicity, and Race 122

Conclusion. What Adoptive Migration Might Mean 148

Notes 155

References 179

Index 193

Über Autor(innen)

Jessaca B. Leinaweaver is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. She is the author of The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru, also published by Duke University Press.