Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: New Geographies of Kinship = 1
TOBY ALICE VOLKMAN
Part I Displacements, Roots, Identities
Going "Home": Adoption, Loss of Bearings, and the Mythology of Roots = 25
BARBARA YNGVESSON
Wedding Citizenship and Culture: Korean Adoptees and the Global Family of Korea = 49 ELEANA KIM
Embodying Chinese Culture: Transnational Adoption in North America = 81
TOBY ALICE VOLKMAN
Part II Counterparts
Chaobao: The Plight of Chinese Adoptive Parents in the Era of the One-Child Policy = 117
KAY JOHNSON
Patterns of Shared Parenthood among the Brazilian Poor = 142
CLAUDIA FONSECA
Birth Mothers and Imaginary Lives = 162
LAUREL KENDALL
Part III Representations
Images of "Waiting Children": Spectatorship and Pity in the Representation of the Global Social Orphan in the 1990's
= 185
LISA CARTWRIGHT
Phantom Lives, Narratives of Possibility = 213
ELIZABETH ALICE HONIG
Contributors = 223
Index 225
Introduction: New Geographies of Kinship = 1
TOBY ALICE VOLKMAN
Part I Displacements, Roots, Identities
Going "Home": Adoption, Loss of Bearings, and the Mythology of Roots = 25
BARBARA YNGVESSON
Wedding Citizenship and Culture: Korean Adoptees and the Global Family of Korea = 49 ELEANA KIM
Embodying Chinese Culture: Transnational Adoption in North America = 81
TOBY ALICE VOLKMAN
Part II Counterparts
Chaobao: The Plight of Chinese Adoptive Parents in the Era of the One-Child Policy = 117
KAY JOHNSON
Patterns of Shared Parenthood among the Brazilian Poor = 142
CLAUDIA FONSECA
Birth Mothers and Imaginary Lives = 162
LAUREL KENDALL
Part III Representations
Images of "Waiting Children": Spectatorship and Pity in the Representation of the Global Social Orphan in the 1990's
= 185
LISA CARTWRIGHT
Phantom Lives, Narratives of Possibility = 213
ELIZABETH ALICE HONIG
Contributors = 223
Index 225