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  • Constructing Identities and Issues of Race in Transnational Adoption: The Experiences of Adoptive Parents

    Author(s)
    Willing, Indigo
    Fronek, Patricia
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Fronek, Patricia
    Willing, Indigo A.
    Year published
    2014
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    Abstract
    Transnational adoption requires adoptive parents to negotiate complexities concerning difference and belonging within the family. Transnational adoption is mediated through societal and governmental prescriptions of suitability that include willingness and competency to raise children to maintain connections to their birth heritages. Tensions in the formation of parental identities are located in different racial, ethnic, cultural and class-based backgrounds to the children they adopt. This contrasts against dominant models of family where constructions of belonging are based on biological ties. A qualitative study ...
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    Transnational adoption requires adoptive parents to negotiate complexities concerning difference and belonging within the family. Transnational adoption is mediated through societal and governmental prescriptions of suitability that include willingness and competency to raise children to maintain connections to their birth heritages. Tensions in the formation of parental identities are located in different racial, ethnic, cultural and class-based backgrounds to the children they adopt. This contrasts against dominant models of family where constructions of belonging are based on biological ties. A qualitative study of thirty-five Australian adoptive parents explored reflections on adoption processes and how the complex task of performing suitability was negotiated. Theoretical understandings were developed using a grounded theory approach. Contemporary social theory with a focus on race, cosmopolitanism and families further developed emergent theoretical understandings during analysis. Tensions in identity formation are discussed. The paper concludes that issues of race in identity formation are marginalised.
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    Journal Title
    The British Journal of Social Work.
    Volume
    44
    Issue
    5
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcs171
    Subject
    Social Work not elsewhere classified
    Social Work
    Sociology
    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/49462
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