Erin Raffety

Families We Need

Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Set in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need traces the movement of three Chinese foster children, Dengrong, Pei Pei, and Meili, from the state orphanage into the humble, foster homes of Auntie Li, Auntie Ma, and Auntie Huang.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 228mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9781978829299
• ISBN-10: 1978829299
• Artikelnr.: 63431990

Autorenporträt

ERIN RAFFETY is a research fellow at the Center for Theological Inquiry, an empirical research consultant at Princeton Theological Seminary, and an associate research scholar at Princeton Seminary's Institute for Youth Ministry. Raffety researches and writes on disability, congregational ministry, and church leadership and is an advocate for disabled people.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Glossary of People, Places, and Concepts
Introduction: Needy Kinship
1 Abandonment, Affinity, and Social Vulnerability
2 Fostering (Whose) Family?
3 Needy Alliances
4 Envying Kinship
5 Replaceable Families?
6 Disruptive Families
Conclusion: Families We Need
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index