Contributor
Marre, Diana.
Imprint:New York : New York University Press, c2009.
Descriptionvii, 312 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction : The Circulation of children / Laura Briggs and Diana Marre -- The Movement of children for international adoption : developments and trends in receiving states and states of origin, 1998-2004 / Peter Selman -- International adoption : lessons from Hawai’i / Judith Schachter -- The Social temporalities of adoption and the limits of plenary adoption / Françoise-Romaine Ouellette -- The Desire for parenthood among lesbians and gay men / Martine Gross -- Refiguring kinship in the space of adoption / Barbara Yngvesson -- The Transnational adoption of a related child in Québec, Canada / Chantal Collard -- Baby-bearing storks : Brazilian intermediaries in the adoption process / Domingos Abreu -- Transnational connections and dissenting views : the evolution of child placement policies in Brazil / Claudia Fonseca -- International adoption in Russia : "market," "children for organs," and "precious" or "bad" genes / Lilia Khabibullina -- The Medicalization of adoption in and from Peru / Jessaca B. Leinaweaver -- Children, individuality, family : discussing assisted reproductive technologies and adoption in Lithuania / Auksuole Cepaitiene -- "We do not have immigrant children at this school, we just have children adopted from abroad" : flexible understandings of children's "origins" / Diana Marre -- Routes to the roots : toward an anthropology of genealogical practices / Caroline Legrand -- Return journeys and the search for roots : contradictory values concerning identity / Signe Howell -- Mothers for others : between friendship and the market / Anne Cadoret -- Seeking sisters : twinship and kinship in an age of internet miracles and DNA technologies / Toby Alice Volkman.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
