Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section 1. Negotiating Everyday, Familial, and National Multiculturalism
Embodying Multiple Selves: Korean Australian Adoptees’ Experiences of Being and Belonging | Jessica Walton
Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Racialized Belongings: A Study of Transnationally Adoptive Parents in Multicultural Australia | Indigo Willing, Patricia Fronek, and Zlatko Skrbiš
Reunions with Siblings in Search Memoirs across Cultures | Margaret Homans
Section 2. Interrupting Myths of Postraciality and Autochthony
Shared and Divergent Landscapes of Transnational Adoption Politics and Critique: Newspaper Reporting and Transnational Adoptee Interventions in Denmark and Minnesota | Kim Park Nelson and Lene Myong
Civilizing Missions and Mimicry in Sweden’s Colonial Present: Exploring the Construction of the Transnational/-racial Adoptee as a Mimic Swede | Richey Wyver
From Adoptee to Trespasser: The Female Asian Adoptee as Oriental Fantasy | Kimberly McKee
Section 3. Exposing Discrepancies: Racial Purity in the “Multicultural Adoptive Land”
Black and White Strangers: Adoption and Ethnic Hierarchies in Finland | Riitta Högbacka and Heidi Ruohio
Black Identity-Making in Flanders: Discourses and Cultural Practices among Transracial Adoptive Families and Black Native Speakers of Flemish | Katrien De Graeve and Sibo Kanobana
Transnational Adoption and the Emergence of Sweden’s Progressive Reproduction Policy: A Contribution to the Biopolitical History of Sweden | Tobias Hübinette
How to “Kin” the Transnational Adoptee in the Québécois Nationalist Family Romance? | Jenny Heijun Wills and Bruno Cornellier
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Contributors
Index