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Discover the roots of international transracial adoption International Korean Adoption: A Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice explores the long history of international transracial adoption. Scholars present the expert multidisciplinary perspectives and up-to-date research on this most significant and longstanding form of international child welfare practice. Viewpoints and research are discussed from the academic disciplines of psychology, ethnic studies, sociology, social work, and anthropology. The chapters examine sociohistorical background, the forming of new families, reflections on Korean adoption, birth country perspectives, global perspectives, implications for practice, and archival, historical, and current resources on Korean adoption. International Korean Adoption: A Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice provides fresh insight into the origins, development, and institutionalization of Korean adoption. Through original research and personal accounts, this revealing text explores how Korean adoptees and their families fit into their family rolesand offers clear perspectives on adoption as child welfare practice. Global implications and politics, as well as the very personal experiences are examined in detail. This source is a one-of-a-kind look into the full spectrum of information pertaining to Korean adoption. Topics in International Korean Adoption: A Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice include: adoption from the Korean perspective historical origins of Korean adoption in the United States adjustments of young adult adoptees marketing to choosy adopters ethnic identity perspectives on the importance of race and culture in parenting birth mothers perspectives sociological approach to race and identity representations of adoptees in Korean popular culture adoption in Australia and the Netherlands much, much more International Korean Adoption: A Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice is illuminating reading for adoptees, adoptive parents, practitioners, educators, students, and any child welfare professional.
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International Korean Adoption
A Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice
HAWORTH Health and Social Policy
Marvin D. Feit, PhD
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International Korean Adoption: A Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice edited by Kathleen Ja Sook Bergquist, M. Elizabeth Vonk, Dong Soo Kim, and Marvin D. Feit
International Korean Adoption
A Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice
Kathleen Ja Sook Bergquist, PhD
M.Elizabeth Vonk, PhD
Dong Soo Kim, PhD
Marvin D.Feit, PhD
Editors
M.Elizabeth Vonk, PhD
Dong Soo Kim, PhD
Marvin D.Feit, PhD
Editors
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
International Korean adoption : a fifty-year history of policy and practice / Kathleen Ja Sook Bergquist [et al.], editors.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-0-7890-3064-1 (hard : alk. paper)
ISBN: 978-0-7890-3065-8 (soft : alk. paper)
1. Intercountry adoptionKorea (South)History. 2. Intercountry adoptionHistory. 3. Interracial adoptionHistory. I. Bergquist, Kathleen Ja Sook.
HV875.58.K6I58 2007
362.734095195dc22
362.734095195dc22
2006038230
We would like to dedicate this book to all Korean adoptees, both adults and children.
This body of work is a testimony to their continued journey
This body of work is a testimony to their continued journey
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Kathleen Ja Sook Bergquist, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She completed her PhD in counselor education at the College of William and Mary, and her MSW at Norfolk State University. Her areas of interest and research are international adoption, diaspora studies, and culturally relevant practice. Dr. Bergquist is an adoption researcher, Korean adoptee, and Korean adoptive parent.
M. Elizabeth Vonk, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program at the School of Social Work at the University of Georgia. She is the author of numerous articles on transracial adoption and provides workshops for transracial adoptive parents and children. Her other research interests include practice evaluation and post-traumatic stress disorder treatment. Dr. Vonk is an international transracial adoptive parent of two.
Dong Soo Kim, PhD, is a Professor of Social Work at Norfolk State University. He completed his doctorate at the University of Chicago and MSW at the University of Pittsburgh. He also holds an MDiv from the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Dr. Kim was one of the earliest researchers of Korean adoption, completing the first longitudinal study examining self-concept and adjustment.
Marvin D. Feit, PhD, is Dean and Professor in the Norfolk State University Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work in Norfolk, Virginia. He is the author or co-author of several books and has written many articles and chapters in the areas of group work, substance abuse, health, and practice. Dr. Feit has made numerous presentations at national, state, and local conferences and has served as a consultant to for-profit and nonprofit organizations, federal and state agencies, and numerous community-based agencies. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Health and Social Policy (Haworth) and of the Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work (Haworth). In addition, he is a co-founding editor of the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment (Haworth).
CONTRIBUTORS
Tai Soon Bai is a Professor in the Department of Social Welfare at Kyungnam University. She completed her MSW at the University of Michigan and her PhD from the University of Chicago. From June 1978 to September 1981, she worked for the State of Michigan as an adoption worker in the Intercountry Adoption Program, and was the President of the Korean Society of Child Welfare from 1998 through 2000.
Kristi Brian is a doctoral candidate in Temple Universitys Department of Anthropology. Her dissertation research questions center around constructions of culture and race and the degree to which adoption professionals incorporate the perspectives of Korean adopted adults.
Catherine Ceniza Choy is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and the author of Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (Duke University Press, 2003). Her current research project focuses on the history of the international adoption of Asian children in the United States.
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