What personal truths reside in biological ties that are absent in adoptive ties? And why do
we think adoptive and biological ties are essentially different when it comes to …

Now is the time for moratoria on intercountry adoption. Further, resuming intercountry
adoption should depend on certain conditions. Such a call is neither radical nor unattainable …

Intercountry adoption (ICA) is a contested practice represented by competing discourses of
humanitarianism, exploitation, poverty and wealth. Multiple factors have contributed to …

The experience of adopted college/university students and young adults, and their unique
challenges in understanding the development of their personal identities, is an important …

Heritage trips are increasingly recognized as beneficial for children adopted internationally
for myriad reasons. For example, a large percentage of adults adopted transracially during …

There has been a global increase in the number of adults who were adopted searching for
their origins. This trend has promoted the interest of social sciences researchers, as well as …

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 …

In 1990, disturbing television footage emerged showing the inhumane conditions in which
children in Romanian institutions were living. Viewers were shocked that the babies were …

Reunification or post-adoption contact between adoptees, birth families, and other adoption
stakeholders has become a normalized developmental trajectory, yet the process of seeking …

In 2017 Ghassan Hage published Is Racism an Environmental Threat? The book's question
misleads. For Hage does not seek to show that the former leads to the latter, rather, he …