Adoptive Migration

Leinaweaver Jessaca B. Leinaweaver

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Spain has one of the highest per capita international adoption rates in the world. Internationally adopted kids are coming from many of the same countries as do the many immigrants who are radically transforming Spain's demographics. Based on interviews with adoptive families, migrant families, and adoption professionals, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver examines the experiences of Latin American children adopted into a rapidly multiculturalizing society. She focuses on Peruvian adoptees and immigrants in Madrid, but her conclusions apply more broadly, to any pairing of adoptees and migrants from the same country. Leinaweaver finds that international adoption, particularly in a context of high rates of transnational migration, is best understood as both a privileged and unusual form of migration, and a crucial and contested method of family formation. Adoptive Migration is a fascinating study of the implications for adopted children of growing up in a country that discriminates against their fellow immigrants.

Sujets

• History of the Americas
• South America
• América del Sur
• Histoire

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 06 septembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822377511
• Langue: English

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Adoptive Migration

Jessaca B. Leinaweaver

Adoptive Migration raising l atinos in spain

Duke University Press Durham and London 2013

∫2013 Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$. Designed by Courtney Leigh Baker. Typeset in Whitman by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. Adoptive migration : raising Latinos in Spain / Jessaca B. Leinaweaver. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn978-0-8223-5492-5 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn978-0-8223-5507-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Intercountry adoption—Spain. 2. Intercountry adoption—Peru. 3. Spain—Emigration and immigration. 4. Peru—Emigration and immigration.i. Title. hv875.5.145 2013 362.7340946—dc23 2013011689

Permissions/Subventions. Some of the material in this book was previously published in another form. Portions of chapters 1 and 2 originally appeared in ‘‘Kinship Paths to and from the New Europe: A Unified Analysis of Peruvian Adoption and Migration,’’The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthro- pology16 (2): 380–400,∫2011 American Anthropological Association.

In memory of Jorge A. Hernández Seminario q.e.p.d.

Solidarity postadoptive overtures

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The Best Interests of a Migrant’s Child separating families or displacing children?

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References

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Index

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Acknowledgments

Mixed Marriages migrants and adoption

Becoming and Unbecoming Peruvian culture, ethnicity, and race122

Introduction comparing adoption and migration

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contents

Waiting for a Baby adopting the ideal immigrant

Conclusion what adoptive migration might mean

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fourUndomesticated Adoption adopting the children of immigrants

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Notes

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acknowledgments

In the six years that I have been planning, working on, and completing this project, I have amassed countless debts. To those who supported (intellec- tually, financially, and emotionally) and participated in this study, I am sincerely grateful. Any strengths of this book can be traced back to those I name here. Its errors and inadequacies are mine alone. Research and writing take time and cost money, both of which are hard to come by these days. I am fortunate that my research with Peruvians in Spain was generously supported by the National Science Foundation (nsf) (grant no. 1026143), the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropo- logical Research, the FulbrightiieProgram, the Social Sciences and Hu- manities Research Council of Canada(sshrc)Standard Research Grant, and the Howard Foundation. Special thanks to Deb Winslow atnsf, Mary Beth Moss at Wenner-Gren, and Aitor Rubio and Patricia Zahniser at Ful- bright in Spain for outstanding support. My earlier research in Peru, 2001–3, was funded by the National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, a Jacob K. Javits Fellow- ship, and the University of Michigan. Brown University has been enormously generous in supporting this research through its Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award; Faculty Research Fund for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; and the Karen T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award for Interna- tional Summer Research Collaboration. Brown’s Population Studies and Training Center (pstc) provided financial support in the form of Mellon Anthropological Demography Funding. I also received support from Brown’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (clacs). A course release granted by Brown’s Pembroke Center during the year I was Edwin and Shirley Seave Faculty Fellow in the seminar ‘‘Markets and Bodies in Transnational Perspective’’ was deeply appreciated. Exchanges