Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: New Geographies of Kinship 1
5. Part I Displacements, Roots, Identities
6. Going ‘‘Home’’: Adoption, Loss of Bearings, and the Mythology of Roots 25
7. Wedding Citizenship and Culture: Korean Adoptees and the Global Family of Korea 49
8. Embodying Chinese Culture: Transnational Adoption in North America 81
9. Part II Counterparts
10. Chaobao: The Plight of Chinese Adoptive Parents in the Era of the One-Child Policy 117
11. Patterns of Shared Parenthood among the Brazilian Poor 142
12. Birth Mothers and Imaginary Lives 162
13. Part III Representations
14. Images of ‘‘Waiting Children’’: Spectatorship and Pity in the Representation of the Global Social Orphan in the 1990s 185
15. Phantom Lives, Narratives of Possibility 213
16. Contributors 223
17. Index 225