The child who was left behind
Dynamic temporality' and interpretations of history in transnational adoption
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3103443 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Yngvesson (Hampshire College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 354-367 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0907-5682 • E-ISSN: 1461-7013 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0907568213483599 |
| OpenAlex | W2079596404 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article draws on psychological theory relating to the emergence of self and subjectivity to examine transnational adoptee experiences of their own circulation as children. The article juxtaposes state policies and adoptive parent discourses that standardize adoption as a unidirectional process that requires a clean break from the past, and more complex renditions by the adopted themselves of subjectivity as a temporally dynamic and open-ended process of coming into being. Drawing on narratives of return by adoptees born in Ethiopia, India, and Korea who were adopted by parents in Sweden and the United States, the article suggests that their experiences in the orphanages, hospitals, and families from which they were adopted complicate understandings of what it means to circulate, while opening up standardizing descriptions of family, childhood, and belonging
Epistemology · Narrative · Sociology · Subjectivity · Temporality · Child Welfare and Adoption · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Theorizing Korean transracial adoptee experiences
Beyond Records
To Search or Not to Search? Transnational Adopted Individuals’ Reflexive Accounts on Searching for First Parents
Perfectos (des) conocidos
Revisiting the Right to Know
Tangled sideways research
Embracing the past
Imageries of family and nation
I want to give myself the opportunity and be adopted
True selves, suspicious lives
Kinship with strangers
After Affect
Culture Keeping
Belonging in an Adopted World
Adopted Territory
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption
The cultural biography of things
Ghostly Matters
Placing the “Gift Child” in Transnational Adoption
Meeting Once More
The Order of Things
Making families”
Outsiders within
Conceiving the New World Order
Placing the "Gift Child" in Transnational Adoption
My future doesn't know ME
Methodological Immaturity in Childhood Research
Getting under their skins? Accessing young children's perspectives through ethnographic fieldwork
"Going "Home
Backed by papers
As One Should, Ought and Wants to Be
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |