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Summary:

"Over 200,000 transnational Korean adoptees live throughout the world today, and many have searched for, and reunited with, birth family members. In this book, Sara Docan-Morgan examines how Korean adoptees from the USA and Denmark navigate reunions with their Korean birth families and attempt to maintain these relationships over time"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Links between past, present, and future: context for understanding communication in reunion
• Initial meetings: communicating family with "strangers"
• Korean birth parents, Westernized adoptees: navigating the terrain of cultural differences during reunion
• (Not) ppeaking Korean: learning to communicate with family across languages
• Adoptees in-between: communicating family with birth parents and adoptive parents
• Long-term relationships with birth families: communicating across space, time, and difference
• Concluding recommendations
• Coda
• Korean, adopted, and reunited during a pandemic
• Interview guides.

Author/Creator:

Docan-Morgan, Sara Jane , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

In reunion: transnational Korean adoptees and the communication of family [by Docan-Morgan, S.J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: In reunion [by Docan-Morgan, S.J.] (Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2024 — ISBN 9781439922828; LCCN 2023013074)

Subjects:

Adoptees — Family relationships — Korea (South)

Adoptees — Family relationships — Denmark

Adoptees — Family relationships — United States

Family reunification — Korea (South) — Psychological aspects

Communication in families — Korea (South)

Intercountry adoption — Korea (South)

Intercountry adoption — Denmark

Intercountry adoption — United States

Interracial adoption — Korea (South)

Interracial adoption — Denmark

Interracial adoption — United States

Birthparents — Korea (South) — Identification

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 07, 2023).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

HV875.58.K6 D633 2024eb

ISBNs:

9781439922842 (electronic book)
1439922845 (electronic book)
9781439922828 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781439922835 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023013075

OCLC Numbers:

1396702027

Other Control Numbers:

EBC30907614 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp305820131