Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece - Kid pro quo? (Paperback)

This book presents a committed quest to unravel and document the postwar adoption networks that placed more than 3,000 Greek children in the United States, in a movement accelerated by the aftermath of the Greek Civil War and by the new conditions of the global Cold War. Greek-to-American adoptions and, regrettably, also their transactions and transgressions, provided the blueprint for the first large-scale international adoptions, well before these became a mass phenomenon typically associated with Asian children. The story of these Greek postwar and Cold War adoptions, whose procedures ranged from legal to highly irregular, has never been told or analyzed before. Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece answers the important questions: How did these adoptions from Greece happen? Was there any money involved? Humanitarian rescue or kid pro quo? Or both? With sympathy and perseverance, Gonda Van Steen has filled a decades-long gap in our understanding, and provided essential information to the hundreds of adoptees and their descendants whose lives are still affected today.

General

Imprint:	The University of Michigan Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2021
Authors:	Gonda Van Steen
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	350
ISBN-13:	978-0-472-03881-7
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > Adoption & tracing birth parents Promotions
LSN:	0-472-03881-8
Barcode:	9780472038817

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