Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Links between Past, Present, and Future: Context for Understanding Communication in Reunion
2. Communicating Family with “Strangers”: Initial Reunion Meetings
3. Korean Birth Parents, Westernized Adoptees: Navigating the Terrain of Cultural Differences during Reunion
4. (Not) Speaking Korean: Learning to Communicate with Family across Languages
5. Adoptees In-Between: Communicating Family with Birth Parents and Adoptive Parents
6. Long-Term Relationships with Birth Families: Communicating across Space, Time, and Difference
7. Concluding Recommendations
Coda: Korean, Adopted, and Reunited during a Pandemic
Appendix: Interview Guides
Notes
References
Index