Intercountry adoption : policies, practices, and outcomes / edited by Judith L. Gibbons and Karen Smith Rotabi.

Other author Gibbons, Judith L.
Other author Rotabi, Karen Smith.
Format Book
Publication InfoFarnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012.
Descriptionxxvi, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Intercountry adoption.

SeriesContemporary social work studies
Contemporary social work studies. ^A716879
Contents The rise and fall of intercountry adoption in the 21st century : global trends from 2001 to 2010 / Peter Selman -- Social policy approaches and social work dilemmas in intercountry adoption / Jonathan Dickens -- Implications of the Hague Convention on the Humanitarian Evacuation and "rescue" of children / Kathleen Ja Sook Bergquist -- Human rights considerations in intercountry adoption : the children and families of Cambodia and Marshall Islands / Jini L. Roby and Trish Maskew -- Fraud in intercountry adoption : child sales and abduction in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Guatemala / Karen Smith Rotabi -- Perspectives on child welfare : ways of understanding roles and actions of current USA adoption agencies involved in intercountry adoptions / Mary Katherine O'Connor and Karen Smith Rotabi -- Child welfare in Romania : contexts and processes / Christina Nedelcu and Victor Groza -- Challenging the discourse of intercountry adoption : perspectives from rural China / Kay Johnson -- Intercountry adoption and child welfare in Guatemala : lessons learned pre- and post- ratification of the 1993 Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption / Kelley McCreery Bunkers and Victor Groza -- Ethiopia at a critical juncture in intercountry adoption and traditional care practices / Kelley McCreery Bunkers, Karen Smith Rotabi, and Benyam Dawit Mezmur -- Maternal thinking in the context of stratified reproduction : perspectives of birth mothers from South Africa / Riitta Högbacka -- Exiting or going forth? An overview of USA outgoing adoptions / Dana Naughton -- Review of meta-analytical studies on the physical, emotional, and cognitive outcomes of intercountry adoptees / Femmie Juffer and Marinus H. van IJzendoorn -- Medical status of internationally adopted children / Laurie C. Miller -- Cognitive competence, academic achievement, and educational attainment among intercountry adoptees : research outcomes from the Nordic countries / Monica Dalen -- Families with intercountry adopted children : talking about adoption and birth culture / Femmie Juffer and Wendy Tieman -- Post-racial utopianism, white color-blindness and "the elephant in the room" : racial issues for transnational adoptees of color / Tobias Hübinette -- The debate / Elizabeth Bartholet and David Smolin -- Best practices in implementing the Hague Convention / Judith L. Gibbons and Karen Smith Rotabi -- Intercountry adoptions and home study assessments : the need for uniform practices / Thomas M. Crea -- Understanding and preventing intercountry adoption breakdown / Jesús Palacios -- Openness and intercountry adoption in New Zealand / Rhoda Scherman -- All grown up : rise of the Korean adult adoptee movement and implications for practice / Hollee McGinnis -- Truth, reconciliation, and searching for the disappeared children of civil war : El Salvador's search and reunion model defined / Carmen Mónico and Karen Smith Rotabi -- Looking to the future / Judith L. Gibbons and Karen Smith Rotabi.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 317-377) and index.
LanguageText in English.
LCCN 2011052074
ISBN9781409410546 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1409410544 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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