1st Edition
Korean Adoptees and Transnational Adoption Embodiment and Emotion
By Jessica Walton
Copyright 2019
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book investigates the experiences of South Koreans adopted into Western families and the complexity of what it means to "feel identity" beyond what is written in official adoption files. Korean Adoptees and Transnational Adoption is based on ethnographic fieldwork in South Korea and interviews with adult Korean adoptees from the United States, Australia, Canada, Switzerland and... Read more
Introduction 1. Emotional labour and transnational adoption 2. Becoming an adoptee 3. “I don’t see Korean”: Feeling ‘white’ 4. Feeling a ‘Korean’ identity 5. Embodied memory, temporality and adoptee connections Conclusion: Beyond binaries: Embodiment, adoption and emotional labour
Biography
Jessica Walton is a Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia. Her research is on the anthropology and sociology of education, race and ethnic relations, adoption and migration.
