Sonja van Wichelen

Legitimating Life

Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sonja van Wichelen boldly describes how contemporary justifications of cross-border adoption navigate between child welfare, humanitarianism, family making, capitalism, science, and health. Focusing on contemporary institutional practices of adoption in the United States and the Netherlands, she traces how professionals, bureaucrats, lawyers, politicians, social workers, and experts legitimate a practice that became progressively controversial.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781978800526
• ISBN-10: 1978800525
• Artikelnr.: 51997347

Autorenporträt

van Wichelen, Sonja

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of figures, tables and
images                                                                                          
Acknowledgements                      
                                                                                        
Introduction: Adoption in the Age of Globalization and
Biotechnology                             
1. The Ethical Market: Between Reproduction and Humanitarianism
                         
2. Double Movements: International Law as Transparency Device
                             
3. Valuing Bodies: Somatic Ethics in the Biomedicalization of Adoption
                  
4. Grievable Lives: The Adoptee and the Child
Migrant                                              
5. Economies of Return: Openness, Knowledge,
Relations                                          
Conclusion: Legitimating
Life                                                                       
                       
Bibliography                                                                                                                          
Index