1st Edition
Origin Narratives The Stories We Tell Children About Immigration and International Adoption
By Macarena Garcia-Gonzalez
Copyright 2017
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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The first of its kind, this volume unpacks the cultural construction of transnational adoption and migration by examining a sample of recent children’s books that address the subject. Of all European countries, Spain is the nation where immigration and transnational adoption have increased most steeply from the early 1990s onward. Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children About Immigration... Read more
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter One: The Books We Recommend to Children
Chapter Two: Framing the Questions
Chapter Three: I Came by Plane
Chapter Four: They Came from the Desert
Chapter Five: The United Colors of the Rainbow
Chapter Six: Intersected Identities
Chapter Seven: Nation as Family
Conclusions
Works Cited
References
Biography
Macarena Garcia Gonzales is a lecturer at the University of Zurich in Switzerland
