Judith Schachter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Schachter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Schachter |
| SIGNATURE | SCHACHTER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Who Governs the Movement of Children
Who Governs the Movement of Children? Rachel Rains Winslow. The Best Possible Immigrants: International Adoption and the American Family.Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 312 pp. $45.00 (hardcover). Judith Schachter Judith Schachter [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 44, Issue 2, April 2020, Pages 376–378, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhz073…
Race
Intercountry Adoption/Global Migration
Pacific Islander migration poses a particular challenge to the international framework established to deal with the circulation of children, given divergent interpretations of kinship. The Hague Convention dealing with intercountry adoption cites legal adoption as the paradigm for guaranteeing the rights of children in all cases of circulation. The paradigm prescribes permanent and exclusive parenthood. Pacific Islander practices of child exchang…
The Dynamics of Mobility
Adoption, fosterage, and child exchange constitute major themes in the literature on Pacific Island societies. However, a world where the movement of people has both intensified and become more complex challenges existing approaches to the circulation of children. We examine diverse conditions of contemporary child circulation: the shift from rural to urban to international migration; the capacities of kinship systems to adapt to this change; and…
From "Squatter" to Homesteader
Papakōlea, a neighborhood at the edge of downtown Honolulu, was granted legal status as a Hawaiian Homestead in 1934. The urban homestead represented an important departure from the 1921 Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, a congressional act whose purpose was to "rehabilitate" Native Hawaiians by returning them to the land. My paper examines the steps through which residents of a city neighborhood turned to their advantage an act emphasizing the rura…
Benedict, Ruth (1887–1948)
Outrage
Sovereignty, indigeneity, identities
Indigeneity and nation, sovereignty and self-determination, ethnicity and race are abstract concepts that gain significance in the political field, where they take shape through the positions that parties, groups, or individual entrepreneurs promote. Political actors pin their hopes on their ability to affect the political discourses about Hawaiian indigeneity and nationalism, self-determination and sovereignty, and to shape the way Hawaiians (na…
One Hundred Percent Hawaiian
Race
Intercountry Adoption/Global Migration
Pacific Islander migration poses a particular challenge to the international framework established to deal with the circulation of children, given divergent interpretations of kinship. The Hague Convention dealing with intercountry adoption cites legal adoption as the paradigm for guaranteeing the rights of children in all cases of circulation. The paradigm prescribes permanent and exclusive parenthood. Pacific Islander practices of child exchang…
The Dynamics of Mobility
Adoption, fosterage, and child exchange constitute major themes in the literature on Pacific Island societies. However, a world where the movement of people has both intensified and become more complex challenges existing approaches to the circulation of children. We examine diverse conditions of contemporary child circulation: the shift from rural to urban to international migration; the capacities of kinship systems to adapt to this change; and…
Sovereignty, indigeneity, identities
Indigeneity and nation, sovereignty and self-determination, ethnicity and race are abstract concepts that gain significance in the political field, where they take shape through the positions that parties, groups, or individual entrepreneurs promote. Political actors pin their hopes on their ability to affect the political discourses about Hawaiian indigeneity and nationalism, self-determination and sovereignty, and to shape the way Hawaiians (na…
One Hundred Percent Hawaiian
Outrage
Sovereignty, indigeneity, identities
Indigeneity and nation, sovereignty and self-determination, ethnicity and race are abstract concepts that gain significance in the political field, where they take shape through the positions that parties, groups, or individual entrepreneurs promote. Political actors pin their hopes on their ability to affect the political discourses about Hawaiian indigeneity and nationalism, self-determination and sovereignty, and to shape the way Hawaiians (na…
Benedict, Ruth (1887–1948)
From "Squatter" to Homesteader
Papakōlea, a neighborhood at the edge of downtown Honolulu, was granted legal status as a Hawaiian Homestead in 1934. The urban homestead represented an important departure from the 1921 Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, a congressional act whose purpose was to "rehabilitate" Native Hawaiians by returning them to the land. My paper examines the steps through which residents of a city neighborhood turned to their advantage an act emphasizing the rura…
Intercountry Adoption/Global Migration
Pacific Islander migration poses a particular challenge to the international framework established to deal with the circulation of children, given divergent interpretations of kinship. The Hague Convention dealing with intercountry adoption cites legal adoption as the paradigm for guaranteeing the rights of children in all cases of circulation. The paradigm prescribes permanent and exclusive parenthood. Pacific Islander practices of child exchang…
The Dynamics of Mobility
Adoption, fosterage, and child exchange constitute major themes in the literature on Pacific Island societies. However, a world where the movement of people has both intensified and become more complex challenges existing approaches to the circulation of children. We examine diverse conditions of contemporary child circulation: the shift from rural to urban to international migration; the capacities of kinship systems to adapt to this change; and…
Race
Who Governs the Movement of Children
Who Governs the Movement of Children? Rachel Rains Winslow. The Best Possible Immigrants: International Adoption and the American Family.Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 312 pp. $45.00 (hardcover). Judith Schachter Judith Schachter [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 44, Issue 2, April 2020, Pages 376–378, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhz073…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · History (3 works) · Kinship (3 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)