Adoption Experiences and the Tracing and Narration of Family Genealogies

• Muut tekijät: Kirton, Derek (Toimittaja)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Aiheet: Philosophy; adoption; search memoir; identity; adoptive parents; class; shame; secrecy; birthmother; orphanage; Irishness; immigration; Jeremy Harding; Lori Jakiela; Belonging; Intercountry adoption; China; Narratives; Genealogy; reunion; autobiography; memoir; embryo donation; open-contact adoption; genealogy; genograms; family relationships; kinship; qualitative research methods; belonging; roots; power; nature; nurture; reproductive justice; legitimacy; illegitimacy; transnational adoption; reunification; African American; Germany; Black German; Afro-German; Afrogerman; Afrodeutsch; adoption reunions; parenting; attachment; working-class; n/a; genealogical bewilderment; ethnicity; intercountry
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This edited collection explores the linkages between adoption and genealogy. With its inevitable genealogical disruptions, adoption offers many interesting avenues to explore a range of psychosocial phenomena. Through both conventional research and means such as creative writing, literary criticism,...