Cultural identity and place in adult korean-american intercountry adoptees

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-48

  Meier, Dani I ^a  

^a Jackson High School   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult adoptees; Cultural identity; Korean american adoptees

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937190871     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J145v03n01_03     Document Type: Article

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