The movement of children for international adoption: Developments and trends in receiving states and states of origin, 1998 - 2004

International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 32-51

  Selman, Peter ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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