Korean Adoptees and Transnational Adoption
Embodiment and Emotion
This book investigates the experiences of South Koreans adopted into Western families and the complexity of what it means to feel identity beyond what is written in official adoption files. Korean Adoptees and Transnational Adoption is based on ethnographic fieldwork in South Korea and interviews with adult Korean adoptees from the United States, Australia, Canada, Switzerland and Sweden. It seeks to probe beneath the surface of what is known and examines identity as an embodied process of making that which is unknown into something that can be meaningfully grasped and felt. Furthermore, drawing on the author's own experiences as a transnatio…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-351-13230-5
- EAN: 9781351132305
- Produktnummer: 30867264
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 190 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'110 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Jessica Walton is a Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia. Her research is on the anthropology and sociology of education, race and ethnic relations, adoption and migration.
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