Legitimating Life: Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology

by Sonja van Wichelen

The phenomenon of transnational adoption is changing in the age of globalization and biotechnology. In Legitimating Life, Sonja van Wichelen boldly describes how contemporary justifications of cross-border adoption navigate between child welfare, humanitarianism, family making, capitalism, science, and health. Focusing on contemporary institutional practices of adoption in the United States and the Netherlands, she traces how professionals,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978800517
• ISBN13: 9781978800519
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher