Geographies of migration and relatedness
Transmigrancy in Open Transnational Adoptive Parenting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978029 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K De Graeve (0000-0002-6177-390X, Ghent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 522-535 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2014.958521 |
| OpenAlex | W2092788206 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 38 |
Current transnational adoptive parenting is characterized by ambiguous practices of (1) discursively distancing adoptive children from immigrants, while (2) symbolically or actually reconnecting newly constituted families to children's birth countries through charity and culture work. This ambiguity reveals the ubiquity of contradictory and essentialist understandings of categories of familial and national belonging. However, adoptive parents’ strategies for accommodating their children's sense of belonging may also open up space for rethinking care and family building in transnational contexts. Using the case of a Belgian family who adopted a 12-year-old girl from Ethiopia, decided to maintain strong connections with the child's biological family, engage in charity work in Ethiopia and forge strong ties with immigrant communities in Belgium, the article explores how the concept of ‘transmigration’ may further our understanding of identity configurations within adoptive families. Furthermore, this particular case of ‘open’ transnational adoptive parenting testifies to adoptive parents’ efforts to escape from essentialist and exclusionary frameworks and create counter-spaces of multiplicity and transmigrancy in a context of severe social and economic inequality
Context (archaeology · Essentialism · Geography · Immigration · Political science · Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma
Kinship with strangers
Culture Keeping
Casualties of CareImmigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France
Belonging in an Adopted World
Feeding the World a Line?
Adoptive Migration
White Privilege
Transnational Adoption and European Immigration Politics
Global pathways. Working class cosmopolitans and the creation of transnational ethnic worlds
Negotiating Identity
Festive gatherings and culture work in Flemish-Ethiopian adoptive families
Storying stories
Scenes of Misrecognition
Mother, Child, Race, Nation
Cultural geographies of migration
Adoption with complications
Kinship Paths to and from the New E urope
On "Humanitarian" Adoption (Madonna in Malawi)
The Feeling of Kinship
Geographies of relatedness
Transnationalism and the spaces of commodity culture
Development in motion
Negotiating Motherhood
Consequences of Migration and Remittances for Mexican Transnational Communities
You must think ofFamilia
Caring at a distance
Growing up White
Whatever Happened to Simultaneity? Transnational Migration Theory and Dual Engagement in Sending and Receiving Countries
Embodying Chinese Culture
"Going "Home
From Immigrant to Transmigrant
The Cultural and Political Economies of Adoption Practices in Andean Peru and the United States
Medicine as Moral Technology
They Have Our Culture
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |