Intercountry adoption and the social production of abandonment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9972082 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Riitta Högbacka (University of Helsinki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 271-282 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0020872817725142 |
| OpenAlex | W2750079176 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 15 |
Although the objective of intercountry adoption is to provide parentless children with families, it also has other unintended consequences. Postcolonial theorists have shown that the intercountry adoption system is shaped by unequal power relations between the Global North and South. Drawing on interviews with South African adoption social workers and birth mothers, this article shifts attention from Global North perspectives to those of the Global South. By focusing on the circumstances of how children become available for adoption, some of the ways in which the adoption system participates in creating the pool of ‘abandoned’ children are explicated
Abandonment (legal · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Global South · Political science · Power (physics · Production (economics · Sociology · Unintended consequences · Child Welfare and Adoption · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Towards a critical development perspective on intercountry adoptions
From primal to colonial wound
Deprived of Adoptive Parenthood
Can First Parents Speak? A Spivakean Reading of First Parents’ Agency and Resistance in Transnational Adoption
The Complexities of Mixed Families
Impact of Christianity and Ancestral Beliefs on Black South Africans’ Decision-Making Regarding the Adoption of Abandoned Children
Un archivo para repensar distintas formas de violencia
Irregular adoptions in the Ethiopian-Spanish context
Belonging in an Adopted World
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption
Beyond Dichotomies
If I Give You My Child, Aren't We Family
Connected Sociologies
Parenthood and Social Reproduction
Placing the "Gift Child" in Transnational Adoption
Theorizing childhood(s)
Evolution and resolution
"Going "Home
Regulating the global adoption of children
Towards a Sociology of Forced Migration and Social Transformation
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |