Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid Pro Quo?

by Gonda Van Steen

Book Overview

This book presents a committed quest to unravel and document the postwar adoption networks that placed more than 3,000 Greek children in the United States, in a movement accelerated by the aftermath of the Greek Civil War and by the new conditions of the global Cold War. Greek-to-American adoptions and, regrettably, also their transactions and transgressions, provided the blueprint for the first large-scale international adoptions, well before...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472038818
• ISBN13: 9780472038817
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"