Meeting Once More

The Korean Side of Transnational Adoption

Bibliographic Data

ID19996648
AuthorsÉlise Prébin (corresponding author), Elise Pre, Elise M Prébin
Year2016
Pages231
Publication date2016-04-19
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMeeting Once More The Korean Side Of Transnational Adoption (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherNew York University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18574/nyu/9780814760260.001.0001
OpenAlexW610301339
Open LibraryOL26181014M
ISBN9780814760260
LanguageEN
Citations received6

A great mobilization began in South Korea in the 1990s: adult transnational adoptees began to return to their birth country and meet for the first time with their birth parents—sometimes in televised encounters which garnered high ratings. What makes the case of South Korea remarkable is the sheer scale of the activity that has taken place around the adult adoptees' return, and by extension the national significance that has been accorded to these family meetings. Informed by the author's own experience as an adoptee and two years of ethnographic research in Seoul, as well as an analysis of the popular television program “I Want to See This Person Again,” which reunites families, this book sheds light on an understudied aspect of transnational adoption: the impact of transnational adoptees on their birth country, and especially on their birth families. The book offers a complex and fascinating contribution to the study of new kinship models, migration, and the anthropology of media, as well as to the study of South Korea

Ethnography · Genealogy · Kinship · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Adoptees · Adoptees, identification · Identification · Intercountry adoption · Interracial adoption · Korea · Social conditions

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