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Lindley, Todd D.

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Intercountry adoption in the Philippines and the United States: A multi-sited migration approach in an era of transnationalism.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Intercountry adoption in the Philippines and the United States: A multi-sited migration approach in an era of transnationalism./
Author:	Lindley, Todd D.
Description:	301 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-11, Section: A, page: 4134.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-11A.
Subject:	Asian Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3423625
ISBN:	9781124246642

Intercountry adoption in the Philippines and the United States: A multi-sited migration approach in an era of transnationalism.
Lindley, Todd D.

Intercountry adoption in the Philippines and the United States: A multi-sited migration approach in an era of transnationalism. - 301 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-11, Section: A, page: 4134.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2010.

This dissertation investigates the intercountry adoption of children from the Philippines to the U.S. as a complex interplay of multi-local, regional, national, international, and global forces occurring at a particular moment in time.

ISBN: 9781124246642Subjects--Topical Terms:

1669375
Asian Studies.

Intercountry adoption in the Philippines and the United States: A multi-sited migration approach in an era of transnationalism.
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520 $a This dissertation investigates the intercountry adoption of children from the Philippines to the U.S. as a complex interplay of multi-local, regional, national, international, and global forces occurring at a particular moment in time.
520 $a The formal adoption of children from poor to rich countries increased rapidly in both number and in visibility from 1980 to 2005. During the same period, the number of sending and receiving countries also increased. Although the Philippines does not send high numbers of adoptees to the United States annually, it ranks fifth in the total number of children adopted by Americans since 1990. While adoptions from most other sending countries fluctuate from year to year, intercountry adoptions from the Philippines have remained steady.
520 $a The Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) method is used to gather semi-structured interview data from 24 adoption agencies in the Philippines, 39 adoptive parents of Filipino children in the U.S. and from other stakeholders in multiple sites across the Philippines and the U.S. The analysis of the interview data reveals that those selected for intercountry adoption are mediated by formal and informal local adoption preferences of gender, age, and skin tone. Most international adoptees have at least one living biological parent who is unable to provide care for socio-economic reasons.
520 $a Further analysis reveals that adoptive parents choose intercountry adoption to avoid the potential for intrusion by biological relatives and due to the scarcity of adoptable young children in the U.S. Migration also plays a significant role in two ways. First, relinquishing mothers in the Philippines tend to be recent rural to urban migrants in Manila or Cebu. Second, those of Philippine descent are given priority in adopting Filipino children and comprise nearly twenty percent of international adoptive parents.
520 $a This study represents one of the first attempts to understand the specific conditions leading to the development of an intercountry adoption system in a major sending country. It contributes to an understanding of transnationalism in that the actors and institutions involved in intercountry adoption operate within and across traditional state boundaries to create a steady and persistent migration of orphan children.
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