TY  - GEN
AU  - Kirton,Derek
AU  - Kirton,Derek
TI  - Adoption Experiences and the Tracing and Narration of Family Genealogies
SN  - books978-3-03928-719-2
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Basel, Switzerland
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - bicssc
KW  - adoption
KW  - search memoir
KW  - identity
KW  - adoptive parents
KW  - class
KW  - shame
KW  - secrecy
KW  - birthmother
KW  - orphanage
KW  - Irishness
KW  - immigration
KW  - Jeremy Harding
KW  - Lori Jakiela
KW  - Belonging
KW  - Intercountry adoption
KW  - China
KW  - Narratives
KW  - Genealogy
KW  - reunion
KW  - autobiography
KW  - memoir
KW  - embryo donation
KW  - open-contact adoption
KW  - genealogy
KW  - genograms
KW  - family relationships
KW  - kinship
KW  - qualitative research methods
KW  - belonging
KW  - roots
KW  - power
KW  - nature
KW  - nurture
KW  - reproductive justice
KW  - legitimacy
KW  - illegitimacy
KW  - transnational adoption
KW  - reunification
KW  - African American
KW  - Germany
KW  - Black German
KW  - Afro-German
KW  - Afrogerman
KW  - Afrodeutsch
KW  - adoption reunions
KW  - parenting
KW  - attachment
KW  - working-class
KW  - n/a
KW  - genealogical bewilderment
KW  - ethnicity
KW  - intercountry
N1  - Open Access
N2  - This edited collection explores the linkages between adoption and genealogy. With its inevitable genealogical disruptions, adoption offers many interesting avenues to explore a range of psychosocial phenomena. Through both conventional research and means such as creative writing, literary criticism, and media analysis, contributors offer wide ranging perspectives on the key questions of genealogy in adoption. They do this in varied ways, reflecting different theoretical approaches and focal points on those impacted by adoption. Core issues include those of kinship, identity, and belonging. Within adoption, these link not only to personal and interpersonal experiences and relationships, but also to intersections with the workings of class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and nation (the latter two are often captured in debates regarding transracial and international adoption). Many important sites and modes of practice are highlighted, such as adoption searches and reunions, openness, access to records, and the community activism that is related to these activities. Although these have long histories, they have also been evolving with the growing importance of social media, online genealogical tools, and DNA testing. Reproductive technologies have similarly evolved, and questions relating to genealogy in adoption are mirrored in relation to donor-assisted conceptions. All these important and intriguing issues are addressed in this volume
UR  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2355
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68593
ER  -