This book investigates the experiences of South Koreans adopted
into Western families and the complexity of what it means to "feel
identity" beyond what is written in official adoption files. Korean
Adoptees and Transnational Adoption is based on ethnographic
fieldwork in South Korea and interviews with adult Korean adoptees
from the United States, Australia, Canada, Switzerland and Sweden.
It seeks to probe beneath the surface of what is "known" and
examines identity as an embodied process of making that which is
"unknown" into something that can be meaningfully grasped and felt.
Furthermore, drawing on the author's own experiences as a
transnational, transracial Korean adoptee, this book analyses the
racial and cultural negotiations of "whiteness" and "Korean-ness"
in the lives of adoptees and the blurriness which results
in-between. Highlighting the role of memory and the body in the
formation of identities, this book will be useful to students and
scholars of Korean Studies, Ethnicity Studies and Anthropology as
well as Asian culture and society more generally.
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