The rise and fall of intercountry adoption in the 21st century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9972289 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Selman (0000-0002-4136-9934, Newcastle University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 575-594 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-24 |
| 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 | 10.1177/0020872809337681 |
| OpenAlex | W2141273419 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 78 |
| References cited | 8 |
English Recent developments in intercountry adoption worldwide, based on a demographic analysis of trends in 22 receiving states between 2001 and 2007, are reviewed. The analysis shows a marked decline in the global number of adoptions after a steady rise from the mid-1990s to over 45,000 in 2004. French Les récents développements de l’adoption internationale dans le monde entier, observés à partir de l’analyse des tendances démographiques dans 22 pays d’accueil entre 2001 et 2007, sont passés en revue. L’analyse montre une baisse sensible du nombre global d’adoptions après une hausse constante du milieu des années 1990 jusqu’à plus de 45,000 en 2004. Spanish Se revisaron los desarrollos recientes en la adopción entre países a nivel mundial, con base en análisis demográficos de tendencias en 22 estados receptores entre 2001 y 2007. El análisis muestra un marcado declive en el número global de adopciones después de un aumento sostenido desde la mitad de los años noventa, por encima de 45,000 en 2004
Art · Geography · Humanities · Political science · Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Reproductive Health and Technologies
Adoption, Demography of
The endurance of coloniality and the embodiment of structural violence in intercountry adoption
Community Attitudes Toward Adoption in Italy
A Better Adoption? Evolution, Challenges, and Projections of Chilean Adoption Policies and Practices
Adoptive Parenting Cognitions in the Era of Open Adoption
Pronatalism in Adoption Seeking
The Quiet Migration Redux
From primal to colonial wound
In an Era of Reform
La construcción ideológica y social del fenómeno de las adopciones
Walking toward Adoption
Health of Post-Institutionalized Haitian Children Adopted to the United States
Implications of irregular transnational adoptions within international standards
Pre-Adoption Adversity and Self-Reported Behavior Problems in 7 Year-Old International Adoptees
Public Intimacy and Kinship in the Korean Adoption Community
The Color Line Exception
Can First Parents Speak? A Spivakean Reading of First Parents’ Agency and Resistance in Transnational Adoption
Where Do They Belong?—Adoption of Mixed-Race Children in Late 1950s and Early 1960s Britain
Group and Child–Family Migration from Central America to the United States
Papering the Origins
A Norwegian Soul in a Chinese Body? Ethnic Identity and Chinese Adoptees in Norway
We Deserve to Be Here
Role Dissonance in Foreign Policy
Samaritans, Family Builders, and the Politics of Intercountry Adoption
Introduction
The Global Decline of Intercountry Adoption
Intercountry adoption of children from Asia in the twenty-first century
Cultural naming practices in children's literature with adoption themes
The Diffusion of Intercountry Adoption
The consequences of accession
The EU and International Adoption from Romania
Children's and parents' thoughts and feelings about adoption, birth culture identity and discrimination in families with internationally adopted children
Attachment and adaptive skills in children of international adoption
Internationally adopted children's general and adoption‐specific stressors, coping strategies and psychological adjustment
The Importance of Perceived Discrimination and Pre-Adoption Risk for Mental Health Problems among Young Adult Internationally Adopted Students in Norway
Difficult Commitments
The United States as a Sending Country for Intercountry Adoption
Transnational Adoption Challenges
Exploitation of Intercountry Adoption
Developments in U.S. Intercountry Adoption Policy since Its Peak in 2004
White Australian Adoptive Mothers' Understandings of Birth Cultures and Families
It Was Like This, I Think”
Theoretical Explanatory Model of International Adoption Failure
Searching for the Self
How Changes in Sending Countries Influenced Patterns of Interracial Families Through Intercountry Adoption
Family Trends and Transracial Adoption in the United States
Adoptees’ Romantic Relationships
Shame, ontological insecurity and intercountry adoption
The Decline in Intercountry Adoptions and New Practices of Global Surrogacy
Social competence in internationally adopted and institutionalized children
Controversy and Its Implications for the Practice of Contemporary Social Work in Intercountry Adoptions
Intercountry Adoption in Europe 1998–2008
Is there a (transracial) adoption achievement gap
Alternatives to international adoption
Giving voice to young adopted women of Chinese origin
Stress, coping and personal strengths and difficulties in internationally adopted children in Spain
Inter‐country adoption in Australia
Residential Racial Diversity
What Explains Openness to Intercountry Adoption
Rescue, red tape, child abduction, illicit adoptions, and discourse
Children without parental care in Poland
Child adoption and war
The emotional experience of being internationally adopted
Globalization, contemporary challenges and social work practice
So Goes China
Babies across Borders
Are Same-Sex and Single Adoptive Parents More Likely to Adopt Transracially? A National Analysis of Race, Family Structure, and the Adoption Marketplace
Birth Parents' Portrayals in Children's Adoption Literature
Kenya's Over-Reliance on Institutionalization as a Child Care and Child Protection Model
Adopciones monoparentales de niños y niñas con «necesidades especiales
Governing multicultural populations and family life
El regreso de la migración silenciosa
Motherhood in Spain
Moving Children through Private International Law
Les adoptions en France et en Italie
Adoption, Foreign-Born Status, and Children's Progress in School
Medicine as Moral Technology
Doing the right thing
| Unique citing works | 78 |
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| Citations per year | 4,88 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 78 |