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1. 1. Growing up as Hybrid Plants A Multiple-Case Study on How Adoptive Parents Cope with the Chinese Origins of Their Adopted Children from China

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Weixue Gao; [2018]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Transnational adoption is a type of adoption where the couple (or an individual) voluntarily become the permanent and legal parents of an adoptee from a different nation. Sweden has been actively participating the transnational adoption since the early 1970s, and from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, China had been one of the major donor countries for Sweden. READ MORE

3. 2. Almost The Same, But Not Quite: Mimicry, Mockery and Menace in Swedish Transracial Adoption Narratives

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Richey Wyver; [2016]
   Keywords : Sweden; International adoption; Colonial Mimicry; Postcolonial Theory; Transnational -racial adoption; Narrative Analysis; Colonial Translation; Bhabha;

   Abstract : This study examines the role and implications of mimicry (Bhabha, 1994) and colonial trans-lation (Young, 2003) in Swedish adoption narratives. Through a deconstructive narrative analysis of three Swedish adoption texts: Längtansbarnen: Adoptivförädrar berättar [The Longed for/Longing Children: Adoptive parents tell their story] (Weigl, 1997), Adoption: Banden som gör oss till familj [Adoption: the ties that make us a family] (Juusela, 2010), and Gul Utanpå [Yellow on the Outside] (Lundberg, 2013); the study explores how mimicry manifests itself in adoption narratives, the process of the translation of the adoptee into a mimic Swede, and how the transnational/-racial adoptee as a mimic poses a threat, as mimicry turns to menace. READ MORE

4. 3. Brown Babies: A Thematic Analysis of Newspaper Articles Concerning Afro-German Children

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Barn

   Author : Perry Taylor; [2016]
   Keywords : Brown babies; changing value; child; themes; adoption;

   Abstract : Mischlingskinder, also referred to as brown babies were the illegitimate children of African American occupation soldiers in post-World War II Germany. The complexities of their existence are often discussed in the context of national identity, racial identity and diplomacy. READ MORE

5. 4. Toward Innumerable Futures: Frank Stanford & Origins

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Adam Walton; [2015]
   Keywords : Parents; Adoption; Origins; Poetry; Poet; Children; Orphans; Identity; Compendium of Characters; The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You; Bibliography; Critical; Biography; Francis Gildart; Frank Stanford; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis is a combined critical, biographical, and bibliographical study of American poet Frank Stanford (1948-1978). A prodigious, prolific poet's poet, Stanford is a long-underappreciated artist whose unwavering legacy, in recent years, has grown to be an undeniable force in contemporary American poetry. READ MORE

6. 5. Discursive Construction of Adoptive Identity: The Case of Ethiopian Born Adult Adoptees Living in Sweden

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

   Author : Girma Gebeyehu; [2008-09-17T07:36:28Z]
   Keywords : social construction; discourse; adoptive identity; socialization;

   Abstract : The main objective of the study is to find out to what extent adoptees’ encounter with different discourses within the society impact their sense of self as adopted persons and, on the other hand, how they negotiate and position their identities in the communities they live in. In an attempt to find answer to these questions, I drew upon social constructionism approach and discourse analysis as theoretical framework and methodological approach respectively. READ MORE