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Babies without Borders Karen Dubinsky

Babies without Borders By Karen Dubinsky

Babies without Borders by Karen Dubinsky


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Integrating the personal with the scholarly, Babies Without Borders exposes what happens when children bear the weight of adult political conflicts.

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Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration Across the Americas by Karen Dubinsky

International adoptions are both high-profile and controversial, with the celebrity adoptions and critically acclaimed movies such as Casa de los babys of recent years increasing media coverage and influencing public opinion. Neither celebrating nor condemning cross-cultural adoption, Karen Dubinsky considers the political symbolism of children in her examination of adoption and migration controversies in North America, Cuba, and Guatemala.Babies Without Borders tells the interrelated stories of Cuban children caught in Operation Peter Pan, adopted Black and Native American children who became icons in the Sixties, and Guatemalan children whose 'disappearance' today in transnational adoption networks echoes their fate during the country's brutal civil war. Drawing from extensive research as well as from her critical observations as an adoptive parent, Karen Dubinsky aims to move adoption debates beyond the current dichotomy of 'imperialist kidnap' versus 'humanitarian rescue.' Integrating the personal with the scholarly, Babies Without Borders exposes what happens when children bear the weight of adult political conflicts.

Babies without Borders Reviews

'Dubinsky's research is excellent... Her contribution to this sub-field in the burgeoning field of childhood studies is a fine one and this book is a must read for all serious scholars of childhood and adoption.' -- James Onusko British Journal of Canadian Studies: vol 24:02:2011

About Karen Dubinsky

Karen Dubinsky is a professor in the Department of Global Development Studies and the Department of History at Queen's University.

Table of Contents

Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Children and the Stories We Tell About ThemChapter 2: The National Baby: Creating Monumental Children From Operation Peter Pan to Elian GonzalezChapter 3: The Hybrid Baby: Domestic Interracial Adoption Since the 1950sChapter 4: The Missing Baby: Transnational Adoption and The Vanishing Children of Guatemala Chapter 5: Conclusion: Setting the Agenda for a Happy ChildhoodSelected Bibliography

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CIN1442610190G
9781442610194
1442610190
Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration Across the Americas by Karen Dubinsky
Used - Good
Paperback
University of Toronto Press
20100401
204
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