Title To save the children of Korea : the Cold War origins of international adoption / Arissa H. Oh.

Publication Info.	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
	©2015

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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 299 pages) : illustrations.
Series	Asian America
	Asian America.
Summary	The first book about the origins and history of international adoption. Although it has become a commonplace practice in the United States, we know very little about how or why it began, or how or why it developed into the practice that we see today. International adoption began in the aftermath of the Korean War. First established as an emergency measure through which to evacuate mixed-race "GI babies," it became a mechanism through which the Korean government exported its unwanted children: the poor, the disabled, or those lacking Korean fathers. Focusing on the legal, social, and political systems at work, the author shows how the growth of Korean adoption from the 1950s to the 1980s occurred within the context of the neocolonial U.S.-Korea relationship, and was facilitated by crucial congruencies in American and Korean racial though, government policies, and nationalisms.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-285) and index.
Contents	Introduction: Legacies of war -- GIs and missionaries in the land of orphans -- Solving the GI baby problem -- Christian Americanism and the adoption of GI babies -- Making families on a new frontier -- The contradictions of love and commerce -- International adoption in the "Miracle on the Han" -- Conclusion: The Korean origins of international adoption.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	Intercountry adoption -- Korea (South) -- History -- 20th century.
	Intercountry adoption -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Interracial adoption -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	United States -- Armed Forces -- Korea (South) -- History -- 20th century.
	United States -- Relations -- Korea (South)
	Korea (South) -- Relations -- United States.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
	Armed Forces. (OCoLC)fst00814586
	Intercountry adoption. (OCoLC)fst00976069
	International relations. (OCoLC)fst00977053
	Interracial adoption. (OCoLC)fst00977475
	Korea (South) (OCoLC)fst01206791
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Oh, Arissa. To Save the Children of Korea : The Cold War Origins of International Adoption. Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, ©2015 9780804791984 9780804795326 (DLC) 2014042791 (OCoLC)894557554
ISBN	9780804795333 (electronic bk.)
	0804795339 (electronic bk.)

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