The Role of Heritage Camps in Identity Development Among Korean Transnational Adoptees: A Relational Dialectics Approach

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 75-99

  Randolph, Tracey H ^a   Holtzman, Mellisa ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heritage camp; Racial identity; Relational dialectics; Transnational adoption; Transracial adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952903583     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10926755.2010.481038     Document Type: Article

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