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 …

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

Abstract The Aotearoa/New Zealand Adoption Act 1955 legislated and governed adoption
practices from 1955 to 1985. Through an exploration of the historical, cultural and social …

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 …

Transnational adoption generates ample controversy both within and outside the adoption
community. In recent times transnational adoption made international headlines following a …

Australian families are changing and parenthood is increasingly being seen as an individual
choice. One important arena for exercising such choice is adoption, which today takes place …

Abstract 2012 marked historic events in the practice of adoption in Australia. Government
focus was on the formulation of apologies to those people affected by past forced adoption …

The question “who am I?” is an enduring one which invokes a variety of responses
depending on a person's social and cultural context. Such a question suggests that there …

Due to the history of Apartheid in South Africa, cross-racial adoption is a fairly recent practice
which was only legalised when the law was amended in 1991 so that prospective parents …

This paper was written to describe the experiences of the researchers in designing cross-
cultural research on the culturally sensitive topic of adoptive parenthood, a field in which …