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Facing the Past
In a growing number of countries, inquiries into past intercountry adoptions take place that identify systemic abuses and irregularities and conclude that adoption stakeholders encouraged or facilitated illegal intercountry adoptions.
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Belonging in an adopted world
Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. In Belonging in an Adopted World, Barbara Yngvesson offers a penetrating exploration of the consequences and implications of this unprecedented movement of children, usually from poor nations to the affluent West. Yngvesson illuminates how the politics of adoption policy has profoundly affected the families, nations, and children involved in this new form of social and economic migration. Starting from the transformation of the abandoned child into an adoptable resource for nations that give and receive children in adoption, this volume examines the ramifications of such gifts, especially for families created through adoption and later, the adopted adults themselves. Bolstered by an account of the author’s own experience as an adoptive parent, and fully attuned to the contradictions of race that shape our complex forms of family, Belonging in an Adopted World explores the fictions that sustain adoptive kinship, ultimately exposing the vulnerability and contingency behind all human identity.
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The traffic in babies : cross-border adoption and baby-selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972
Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States. At times, adopting across the border was a strategy used to deliberately avoid professional oversight and take advantage of varying levels of regulation across states and provinces. The Traffic in Babies traces the efforts of Canadian and American child welfare leaders — with intermittent support from immigration officials, politicians, police, and criminal prosecutors — to build bridges between disconnected jurisdictions and control the flow of babies across the Canada-U.S. border. Karen A. Balcom details the dramatic and sometimes tragic history of cross-border adoptions — from the Ideal Maternity Home case and the Alberta Babies-for-Export scandal to trans-racial adoptions of Aboriginal children. Exploring how and why babies were moved across borders, The Traffic in Babies is a fascinating look at how social workers and other policy makers tried to find the birth mothers, adopted children, and adoptive parents who disappeared into the spaces between child welfare and immigration laws in Canada and the United States.
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Law and Adoption in the UK: A Conversation with Alice Diver
In this conversation, Emily Hipchen speaks with Dr. Alice Diver (School of Law, QUB, N. Ireland) about some of the themes underpinning her publication, \"'Monstrous Othering': The Gothic Nature of Origin-Tracing in Law and Literature\" (November 2021). The conversation opens with a brief discussion of their own respective experiences as \"mother and baby home\" adoptees in the US and Canada in the 1960s before turning to an analysis of how the particular adoptee brand of \"fearful otherness\" is often represented—and indeed perpetuated—in certain works of \"monstrous orphan\" fiction. In respect of achieving meaningful sociolegal and cultural reforms, language is key. The debates surrounding the wording of Ireland's controversial Birth Information and Tracing Act (2022) highlighted how lingering prejudices still attach to the topic of adoption and to the need to find one's origins. Discriminatory barriers to access—and contact with genetic relatives—still exist: the use of labels matters, too, as the controversy over the use of the term \"birth mother\" within the legislation (since amended to \"mother\") also evidenced. Though mainly relevant to adoptee rights, and adoption law and policy, debates and discourse on language may also impact on other areas where losses of origins occur, such as surrogacy and international adoption.
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From Adoption to Transnational Surrogacy: Family Formation among Non-Heterosexual Parents in Spain
Non-heterosexual families have emerged as a distinct social group since the Spanish Government approved same-sex marriage in 2005, including the right to adoption. While some same-sex couples have their children through intercountry adoption, legal restrictions limiting non-heterosexual families in most sending countries, among other factors, push same-sex couples to have their children through Assisted Reproduction Techniques (ARTs) and transnational surrogacy, particularly in the United States. However, once non-heterosexual Spanish people make the decision to become parents, they must face homophobic attitudes and policies in their processes of becoming parents, which contributes to delaying their family formation. Based on ethnographic data, this paper focuses on how national and transnational conditions affect non-heterosexual family formation in Spain. In doing so, global/local economies, national/international policies, as well as gender, class, citizenship, and legitimacy are considered.
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The Transnational Illegal Adoption Market
The last half-century has witnessed the emergence of a transnational illegal market in adoptable children.Numerous cases have been uncovered whereby children from the Global South were purchased or kidnapped from their families or orphanages in order to meet the high demand for adoption among couples and individuals in the Global North.
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Human Trafficking in Ethiopia
The purpose of this review is to integrate evidence on human trafficking in Ethiopia and identify gaps and recommendations for service delivery, research and training, and policy. A scoping literature review approach was used to systematically search nursing, medical, psychological, law, and international databases and synthesize information on a complex, understudied topic. The search yielded 826 articles, and 39 met the predetermined criteria for inclusion in the review. Trafficking in Ethiopia has occurred internally and externally in the form of adult and child labor and sex trafficking. There were also some reports of organ trafficking and other closely related human rights violations, such as child marriage, child soldiering, and exploitative intercountry adoption. Risk factors for trafficking included push factors (poverty, political instability, economic problems, and gender discrimination) and pull factors (demand for cheap labor). Trafficking was associated with poor health and economic outcomes for victims. Key recommendations for service delivery, research and training, and policy are identified, including establishing comprehensive services for survivor rehabilitation and reintegration, conducting quantitative health outcomes research, and reforming policy around migration and trafficking. Implementing the recommendations identified by this review will allow policy makers, researchers, and practitioners to take meaningful steps toward confronting human trafficking in Ethiopia.
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The Fate of Intercountry Adoptions Following COVID-19
Intercountry adoption (ICA) is the process of adopting \"a child from a country other than your own through permanent legal means,\" and then bringing that child to live with you in your country of residence. Whether the adoption is international or domestic, the process is largely handled by private agencies and lawyers who act as intermediaries and interact directly with the participants. For prospective adoptive parents, adopting a child from a foreign country is based on contractual arrangements and requires time, paperwork, and intermediaries to hasten the one- to four-year process. For lawyers and private agencies, ICA is a complicated process, often burdened by state regulations, or concerns with equality, legality, or bureaucratic due process. But imagine initiating this process as an adoptive parent, only to find a worldwide pandemic will intervene and further delay the process with travel bans and raised expenses, distracting from the whole objective of foreign adoption. The purpose of this comment is to analyze problems that countries have and/or are going to face post-COVID-19, as travel bans are lifted, and blended families are united.
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Unwitting and Unwelcome in Their Own Homes: Remedying the Coverage Gap in the Child Citizenship Act of 2000
The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 has provided automatic U.S. citizenship to countless foreign-born adoptees. Within the Act exists a noticeable gap in coverage for those U.S. international adoptees who were over the age ofz8 as of the Act's passage in 2001. As a result, tens of thousands of U.S. adoptees are considered deportable non-citizens. The deportation of a handful of U.S. adoptees, men and women who had lived nearly their entire lives in the United States, has generated significant media attention and public sympathy. However, Congress has yet to pass legislation, namely the Adoptee Citizenship Act, amending the Child Citizenship Act to retroactively grant citizenship status to those left unprotected. Adoptees and their advocates cannot wait for this protection to be granted. This Note provides alternative arguments and sources of law that adoptees and advocates should consider in deportation proceedings and in broader legislative lobbying efforts. In particular, this Note argues that the Child Citizenship Act, as it stands, cannot withstand equal protection scrutiny, encouraging courts to apply a more heightened standard than rational basis review. These arguments aim to persuade courts to reverse the deportable status of many U.S. international adoptees and to further motivate Congress to amend the Child Citizenship Act.
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