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The Best Possible Immigrants : International Adoption and the American Family / Rachel Rains Winslow.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Politics and Culture in Modern AmericaPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource : 6 illusContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812293968
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV875.5 .W567 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction. The Interest of Many: The Foundations of International Adoption -- Chapter 1. “Babyselling Rings,” “Adoption Mills,” and “Baby Rackets”: Formalizing Policies and Manufacturing Markets -- Chapter 2. “An International Baby Hunt”: The “Gray Market” in Greece -- Chapter 3. “The Great Heart of America”: Volunteer Humanitarians and Korean Adoptions -- Chapter 4. Coming Out of the Shadows: Adoptive Parents as Public Figures -- Chapter 5. A New Kind of Racial Alchemy: International Development, Transracial Adoption, and the Vietnam War -- Chapter 6. “Children of Controversy”: Operation Babylift and the Crisis of Humanitarianism -- Epilogue. The Legacy of Voluntarism: International Adoption in the Twenty-First Century -- Appendix. Selected Immigration Legislation and Refugee Action Chronology, 1945–1976 -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction. The Interest of Many: The Foundations of International Adoption -- Chapter 1. “Babyselling Rings,” “Adoption Mills,” and “Baby Rackets”: Formalizing Policies and Manufacturing Markets -- Chapter 2. “An International Baby Hunt”: The “Gray Market” in Greece -- Chapter 3. “The Great Heart of America”: Volunteer Humanitarians and Korean Adoptions -- Chapter 4. Coming Out of the Shadows: Adoptive Parents as Public Figures -- Chapter 5. A New Kind of Racial Alchemy: International Development, Transracial Adoption, and the Vietnam War -- Chapter 6. “Children of Controversy”: Operation Babylift and the Crisis of Humanitarianism -- Epilogue. The Legacy of Voluntarism: International Adoption in the Twenty-First Century -- Appendix. Selected Immigration Legislation and Refugee Action Chronology, 1945–1976 -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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In English.

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