- 150 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Reproductive Justice, Adoption, and Foster Care
About this book
Understanding practices of family separation and child removal necessitates considering the impacts of globalizing capitalism, colonialism, empire building and the establishment and normalization of systemic racism.
In Reproductive Justice, Adoption, and Foster Care, the authors situate the colonial legacies of family separation, what it means to center the right parent, and Reproductive Justice and transnational feminist frameworks in conversation with one another in order to elucidate a more nuanced and comprehensive approach to recognizing the significance of contemporary examples of family separation. In doing so, the book showcases the connections between adoption and foster care within the intellectual and activist frameworks of human rights, Critical Adoption Studies, Reproductive Justice, and transnational feminisms. Epistemologically, Reproductive Justice and transnational feminisms meet at the point where both consider and interrogate globalizing capitalism, neoliberal economic and political ideologies, and the ways that various people—mostly people of color, poor people, women, children, and Indigenous people—are considered disposable. Critical Adoption Studies also importantly highlights the ways that adoption and foster care function as forms of family formation and as mechanisms of globalizing capitalism and state formation. Thus, it is critical that any exploration of the reproductive experiences of marginalized individuals interrogate and complicate notions of "choice" to advocate for justice.
Reproductive Justice, Adoption, and Foster Care will be of interest to students of sociology, psychology, and social work, as well as scholars, activists, policymakers, and adoption and foster care practitioners.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- 1 Introduction
- A Transracial Adoptee Writing Herself into Existence: Interlude with Shannon Gibney
- 2 “Systems of Care” in Foster Care and Adoption
- Wrestling with Colonial Legacies of Iñupiaq Family Separation: Interlude with Roo Ramos
- 3 Transnational Adoption and Indigenous Sovereignty
- Constellations of National Economies, Family Separation, and Military Occupation in the Transnational Adoption Industrial Complex: Interlude with Kimberly D. McKee
- 4 Juvenile Justice, Foster Care, and Adoption
- Creative Resistance for and by Systems-involved Young People: Interlude with Lizbett Benge
- 5 The Right to Parent
- Visions of the Future Through Indigenous Human Rights: Interlude with Julian Aguon
- Index