Our adoptee, our alien: Transnational adoptees as specters of foreignness and family in South Korea

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 497-532

  Kim, Eleana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoptees; Family; Globalization; Kinship; Korea; Transnational adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250877731     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2007.0027     Document Type: Review

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