An ethnography examining the history of Korean adoption to West, the emergence of a distinctive adoptee collective identity, and adoptee returns to Korea in relation to South Korean modernity and globalization.
Since the end of the Korean War, 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America, Europe and Australia. This book examines the history of Korean adoption, the emergence of an adoptee collective identity and adoptee returns to Korea in rel…
When Emily Martin delivered the annual Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures at the University of Rochester in 1986, she took as her subject the meaning of money in China and the United States. Though the topic is of perennial interest - and never more so than in our era, when economic fo…