From Orphan to Adoptee : U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption, Pape...

Description: From Orphan to Adoptee : . Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption, Paperback by Pate, Soojin, ISBN 0816683077, ISBN-13 9780816683079, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The author examines the role of the US military and empire-building in creating the conditions in which Korean children could be made available for adoption, beginning with the US military occupation of the southern portion of Korea in 1945, and considers the role of Korean children in facilitating neocolonial relations between the US and Korea during the Cold War era. She places Korean adoption in the contexts of US militarism, the Cold War Orientalism that expanded the definition of the family, and heteronormative kinship formation that assimilated the Korean child as a white American, and locates the beginning of the adoption trend before other historical studies, which place it with the start of the Korean War. She discusses the difference between an orphan and an adoptee and the process in which an unwanted Korean orphan transforms into a desirable adoptee. Through film, literary, and archival materials, she describes how the orphan and adoptee emerged as possible solutions to geopolitical and social problems like expanding the US empire during an era of decolonization, incorporating Asian bodies into the national landscape during an era of Asian exclusion, transforming children who were considered unwanted into viable American citizens, and assimilating nonwhite children into white families to resemble normal American families. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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