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To save the children of Korea : the Cold War origins of international adoption
To Save the Children of Korea is the first book about the origins and history of international adoption. Although it has become a commonplace practice in the United States, we know very little about how or why it began, or how or why it developed into the practice that we see today.
Arissa Oh argues that international adoption began in the aftermath of the Korean War. First established as an emergency measure through which to evacuate mixed-race \"GI babies,\" it became a mechanism through which the Korean government exported its unwanted children: the poor, the disabled, or those lacking Korean fathers. Focusing on the legal, social, and political systems at work, this book shows how the growth of Korean adoption from the 1950s to the 1980s occurred within the context of the neocolonial U.S.-Korea relationship, and was facilitated by crucial congruencies in American and Korean racial thought, government policies, and nationalisms. It also argues that the international adoption industry played an important but unappreciated part in the so-called Korean \"economic miracle.\"
Korean adoption served as a kind of template as international adoption began, in the late 1960s, to expand to new sending and receiving countries. Ultimately, Oh demonstrates that although Korea was not the first place that Americans adopted from internationally, it was the place where organized, systematic international adoption was born.
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From War Waif to Ideal Immigrant: The Cold War Transformation of the Korean Orphan
Adoption from Korea began as an evacuation--of GI babies whose racial mixture and illegitimacy made them unacceptable in Korea--and journalists used the term \"babylift\" to describe US-bound flights of Korean children almost twenty years before the more famous Vietnam War-era babylift. But the thousands of mixed-race \"GI babies\" adopted by American families in the 1950s, and the tens of thousands of \"full-blooded\" Korean children that followed, are absent from histories of refugee orphans. Neither do they appear in histories of refugee law and policy, which usually begin after World War II, focus primarily on Europeans and Cubans, and then shift to influxes from Southeast Asia after the Vietnam War. This historiographical disappearance reveals how these Korean refugee orphans have been reimagined as little immigrants. Here, Oh discusses the Korean adoption mechanisms.
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