During the 1990s, the number of children adopted from poorer countries to the more affluent West grew exponentially. Close to 140,000 transnational adoptions oc
In the past two decades, transnational adoption has exploded in scope and significance, growing up along increasingly globalized economic relations and the deve
With essays by well-known adoption practitioners and researchers who source empirical research and practical knowledge, this volume addresses key developmental,
A feminist historian and an adoptive parent, Laura Briggs gives an account of transracial and transnational adoption from the point of view of the mothers and c