Since the Korean War began, Western families have adopted more than
200,000 Korean children. Two-thirds of these adoptees found homes
in the United States. The majority joined white families and in the
process forged a new kind of transnational and transracial kinship.
Kimberly D. McKee examines the growth of the neocolonial,
multi-million-dollar global industry that shaped these families-a
system she identifies as the transnational adoption industrial
complex. As she shows, an alliance of the South Korean welfare
state, orphanages, adoption agencies, and American immigration laws
powered transnational adoption between the two countries. Adoption
became a tool to supplement an inadequate social safety net for
South Korea's unwed mothers and low-income families. At the same
time, it commodified children, building a market that allowed
Americans to create families at the expense of loving, biological
ties between Koreans. McKee also looks at how Christian
Americanism, South Korean welfare policy, and other facets of
adoption interact with and disrupt American perceptions of nation,
citizenship, belonging, family, and ethnic identity.
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