Adoption Experiences and the Tracing and Narration of Family Genealogies

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,...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kirton, Derek (Editor)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
Subjects:
Online Access:Get Fullteks
DOAB: description of the publication
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
LEADER 04025naaaa2200901uu 4500
001 doab_20_500_12854_68593
005 20210501
020 |a books978-3-03928-719-2 
020 |a 9783039287185 
020 |a 9783039287192 
024 7 |a 10.3390/books978-3-03928-719-2  |c doi 
041 0 |a English 
042 |a dc 
072 7 |a HP  |2 bicssc 
100 1 |a Kirton, Derek  |4 edt 
700 1 |a Kirton, Derek  |4 oth 
245 1 0 |a Adoption Experiences and the Tracing and Narration of Family Genealogies 
260 |a Basel, Switzerland  |b MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute  |c 2020 
300 |a 1 electronic resource (160 p.) 
506 0 |a Open Access  |2 star  |f Unrestricted online access 
520 |a 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. 
540 |a Creative Commons  |f https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  |2 cc  |4 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 
546 |a English 
650 7 |a Philosophy  |2 bicssc 
653 |a adoption 
653 |a search memoir 
653 |a identity 
653 |a adoptive parents 
653 |a class 
653 |a shame 
653 |a secrecy 
653 |a birthmother 
653 |a orphanage 
653 |a Irishness 
653 |a immigration 
653 |a Jeremy Harding 
653 |a Lori Jakiela 
653 |a Belonging 
653 |a Intercountry adoption 
653 |a China 
653 |a Narratives 
653 |a Genealogy 
653 |a reunion 
653 |a autobiography 
653 |a memoir 
653 |a embryo donation 
653 |a open-contact adoption 
653 |a genealogy 
653 |a genograms 
653 |a family relationships 
653 |a kinship 
653 |a qualitative research methods 
653 |a belonging 
653 |a roots 
653 |a power 
653 |a nature 
653 |a nurture 
653 |a reproductive justice 
653 |a legitimacy 
653 |a illegitimacy 
653 |a transnational adoption 
653 |a reunification 
653 |a African American 
653 |a Germany 
653 |a Black German 
653 |a Afro-German 
653 |a Afrogerman 
653 |a Afrodeutsch 
653 |a adoption reunions 
653 |a parenting 
653 |a attachment 
653 |a working-class 
653 |a n/a 
653 |a genealogical bewilderment 
653 |a ethnicity 
653 |a intercountry 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2355  |7 0  |z Get Fullteks 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68593  |7 0  |z DOAB: description of the publication