1st Edition

Reproductive Justice, Adoption, and Foster Care

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

Understanding practices of family separation and child removal necessitates considering the impacts of globalizing capitalism, colonialism, empire building and the establishment and normalization of systemic racism. In Reproductive Justice, Adoption, and Foster Care , the authors situate the colonial legacies of family separation, what it means to center the right parent, and Reproductive... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction  A Transracial Adoptee Writing Herself Into Existence: Interlude with Shannon Gibney  Chapter 2. “Systems of Care” in Foster Care and Adoption  Wrestling with Colonial Legacies of Iñupiaq Family Separation: Interlude with Roo Ramos  Chapter 3. Transnational Adoption and Indigenous Sovereignty  Constellations of National Economies, Family Separation, and Military Occupation in the Transnational Adoption Industrial Complex: Interlude with Kimberly D. McKee  Chapter 4. Juvenile Justice, Foster Care, and Adoption  Creative Resistance for and by Systems-involved Young People: Interlude with Lizbett Benge  Chapter 5. Reimagining Care and Community: The Right to Parent  Visions of the Future Through Indigenous Human Rights: Interlude with Julian Aguon

Biography

Tanya Saroj Bakhru is a professor and program coordinator of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at San Jose State University. She holds a PhD in Women’s Studies from University College Dublin in Ireland. Her research focuses on transnational women’s health movements and reproductive justice.

Krista L. Benson is an associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University, teaching in LGBT Studies, Integrative Studies, and Digital Studies. They hold a PhD from The Ohio State University with an interdisciplinary specialization in Sexuality Studies. Their research focuses on how the co-constitution of sexuality, gender, race, and Indigenous sovereignty impacts marginalized people, especially children and young adults, and those involved with the criminal injustice system at all ages.