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Summary:

A great mobilization began in South Korea in the 1990s: adult transnational adoptees began to return to their birth country and meet for the first time with their birth parents--sometimes in televised encounters that garnered high ratings. What makes the case of South Korea remarkable is the sheer scale of the activity that has taken place around the adult adoptees' return, and by extension, the national significance that has been accorded to these family meetings. (...) The volume offers a complex and fascinating contribuition to the study of new kinship models, migration, and the anthropology of media, as well as to the study of South Korea."--Page 4 of cover.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Shift in South Korean Policies toward Korean Adoptees, 1954-Today
• 2. Everyday Encounters
• 3. Holt International Summer School or Three-Week Re-Koreanization, 1999-2004
• 4. Stratification and Homogeneity at the Korean Broadcasting System, 2003
• 5. National Reunification and Family Meetings
• 6. Stories behind History
• 7. Meetings' Aftermaths
• 8. Evolving Relationship with My Birth Family
• 9. Management of Feelings
• 10. Meeting the Lost and the Dead.

Author/Creator:

Prébin, Elise

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Meeting once more: the Korean side of transnational adoption [by Prébin, E.]

Subjects:

Intercountry adoption — Korea (South)

Interracial adoption — Korea (South)

Adoptees — Korea (South) — Identification

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HV875.58.K6 P74 2013

ISBNs:

0814764967 (electronic bk.)
9780814764961 (electronic bk.)
9780814760260 (cl, alk. paper) [Invalid]
0814760260 (cl, alk. paper) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

841908078

Other Control Numbers:

562434 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp9964585