International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children

by Laura Briggs

Book Overview

In the past two decades, transnational adoption has exploded in scope and significance, growing up along increasingly globalized economic relations and the development and improvement of reproductive technologies. A complex and understudied system, transnational adoption opens a window onto the relations between nations, the inequalities of the rich and the poor, and the history of race and racialization, Transnational adoption has been marked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814791026
• ISBN13: 9780814791028
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"