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Journal Article
From War Waif to Ideal Immigrant: The Cold War Transformation of the Korean Orphan
2012
Overview
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.
