Drawing on select examples of adoption policy, this article considers key assumptions in
discourse about 'the best interests of the child'. The central argument is that the life-long …

This paper examines the ways in which transnational Korean adoptees experience identity
as an embodied subjective process that is simultaneously contested and objectified by …

Using a post-structuralist narrative approach, this article focuses on insights gained from a
qualitative study with 11 Australian intercountry adult adoptees with particular reference to …

This book investigates the experiences of South Koreans adopted into Western families and
the complexity of what it means to" feel identity" beyond what is written in official adoption …

Intercountry adoptees face many challenges in develo** their identity and achieving a
sense of belonging in post-assimilation Australia. This study uses a constructivist approach …

This paper explores homecoming journeys from an adopted Korean perspective through the
use of autoethnography. Adopted Koreans have been returning to South Korea in search of …

Intercountry adoption programmes have brought children from racially and culturally diverse
backgrounds to live as Australians, including 30 Thai children from Rangsit Children's Home …

This chapter investigates how Korean Australian intercountry adoptees use social media
creating adoptee digital diasporas. Social media is a diasporic space that connects adult …

Australian research on intercountry adoption in Australia is reported with particular reference
to social work, divergent and competing interests of various stakeholders, and the highly …

This article reviews the history of domestic and international adoption, examines
international agreements and US statutes that govern intercountry adoption, and assesses …