Author: Linda Seligmann Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804787255 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 345
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Family-making in America is in a state of flux—the ways people compose their families is changing, including those who choose to adopt. Broken Links, Enduring Ties is a groundbreaking comparative investigation of transnational and interracial adoptions in America. Linda Seligmann uncovers the impact of these adoptions over the last twenty years on the ideologies and cultural assumptions that Americans hold about families and how they are constituted. Seligmann explores whether or not new kinds of families and communities are emerging as a result of these adoptions, providing a compelling narrative on how adoptive families thrive and struggle to create lasting ties. Seligmann observed and interviewed numerous adoptive parents and children, non-adoptive families, religious figures, teachers and administrators, and adoption brokers. The book uncovers that adoption—once wholly stigmatized—is now often embraced either as a romanticized mission of rescue or, conversely, as simply one among multiple ways to make a family.
Author: William Robinson Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 0
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Embark on an enthralling journey into the intricate tapestry of human relationships with "Breaking Free from Toxic Relationships: The Key to Creating Enduring Ties, Reconciling Disputes, Enhancing Affection, and Conquering a Sense of Co." The book is a mind-expanding odyssey that transcends the realms of self-discovery, resilience, and the profound liberation that comes from forging intentional and authentic connections. In the pages of this literary masterpiece, the complexities of toxic relationships are unraveled with a finesse that captivates the mind and touches the soul. The brilliance of this book lies in its ability to serve as both guide and confidant, navigating you through the labyrinth of your own emotions and experiences. It is an immersive experience, a literary symphony that resonates with the deepest chords of the human psyche. From the psychological odyssey of self-discovery to the art of reconciliation and the cultivation of resilience, each chapter is a revelation that beckons you to embark on your journey of profound introspection. But this isn't just a book about recognizing toxicity-it's a manifesto for empowerment. It boldly declares that liberation is not merely an escape but a radical act of self-love, an assertion of your inherent worthiness of healthy, fulfilling relationships. As you turn each page, you'll feel the surge of empowerment coursing through your veins, propelling you toward a future marked by intentional choices and flourishing connections. Get ready to be captivated, inspired, and profoundly moved. The content of the book is one that leads one through a mind-blowing journey that will reshape the way one perceives and navigates the intricate dance of human connections. Open its pages and prepare to be swept away into a world where breaking free isn't just an act-it's a revelation, a celebration, and a testament to the boundless possibilities that await when you dare to forge your path toward enduring authentic ties. If you sincerely want to put an end to that toxic relationship, click the BUY BUTTON NOW.
Author: Raelene Wilding Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1137338601 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 201
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Growing numbers of partners, parents, children, grandchildren and siblings are living far away from each other, yet their opportunities to stay in touch have never been greater. Smartphones, tablets and personal computers are used by parents in London to care for their children in the Philippines. Refugees use phones and international transfers to send money and support to parents overseas. Funerals, weddings and anniversaries prompt return visits by plane and are streamed online to kin around the world. The mechanisms and processes of globalization are transforming the ways in which people 'do' and think about their families. Families, Intimacy and Globalization examines their experiences, charting the tensions between the freedoms and choices of late modern individuals, on the one hand, and the constraints of relational ties of love and obligation, on the other, which produce the 'floating ties' of global families and intimate relationships. Using detailed examples from all corners of the globe and across the life course, from internet dating to parenting to aged care, this thought-provoking book examines the transformation of relationships by the processes of migration and the cultural and economic flows that are central to globalization.
Author: Lene Pedersen Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 1529756421 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 938
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The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology is the first instalment of The SAGE Handbook of the Social Sciences series and encompasses major specialities as well as key interdisciplinary themes relevant to the field. Globally, societies are facing major upheaval and change, and the social sciences are fundamental to the analysis of these issues, as well as the development of strategies for addressing them. This handbook provides a rich overview of the discipline and has a future focus whilst using international theories and examples throughout. The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology is an essential resource for social scientists globally and contains a rich body of chapters on all major topics relevant to the field, whilst also presenting a possible road map for the future of the field. Part 1: Foundations Part 2: Focal Areas Part 3: Urgent Issues Part 4: Short Essays: Contemporary Critical Dynamics
Author: Amy L. Best Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479802328 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 259
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The book provides a thorough account of the role that food plays in the lives of today’s youth, teasing out the many contradictions of food as a cultural object—fast food portrayed as a necessity for the poor and yet, reviled by upper-middle class parents; fast food restaurants as one of the few spaces that kids can claim and effectively ‘take over’ for several hours each day; food corporations spending millions each year to market their food to kids and to lobby Congress against regulations; schools struggling to deliver healthy food young people will actually eat, and the difficulty of arranging family dinners, which are known to promote family cohesion and stability. -- amazon.com
Author: Ieva Jusionyte Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520283511 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 300
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This highly original work of anthropology combines extensive ethnographic fieldwork and investigative journalism to explain how security is understood, experienced, and constructed along the Triple Frontera, the border region shared by Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. One of the major "hot borders" in the Western Hemisphere, the Triple FronteraÊis associated with drug and human trafficking, contraband, money laundering, and terrorism. It's also a place where residents, particularly on the Argentine side, are subjected to increased governmental control and surveillance. How does a scholar tell a story about a place characterized by illicit international trading, rampant violence, and governmental militarization? Jusionyte inventively centered her ethnographic fieldwork on a community of journalists who investigate and report on crime and violence in the region. Through them she learned that a fair amount of petty, small-scale illicit trading goes unreportedÑa consequence of a community invested in promoting the idea that the border is a secure place that does not warrant militarized attention. The author's work demonstrates that while media is often seen as a powerful tool for spreading a sense of danger and uncertainty, sensationalizing crime and violence, and creating moral panics, journalists can actually do the opposite. Those who selectively report on illegal activities use the news to tell particular types of stories in an attempt to make their communities look and ultimately be more secure.
Author: Christa Craven Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429776810 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 242
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Although there are far more opportunities for LGBTQ people to become parents than there were before the 1990s, attention to the reproductive challenges LGBTQ families face has not kept pace. Reproductive Losses considers LGBTQ people’s experiences with miscarriage, stillbirth, failed adoptions, infertility, and sterility. Drawing on Craven’s training as a feminist anthropologist and her experiences as a queer parent who has experienced loss, Reproductive Losses includes detailed stories drawn from over fifty interviews with LGBTQ people (including those who carried pregnancies, non-gestational and adoptive parents, and families from a broad range of racial/ethnic, socio-economic, and religious backgrounds) to consider how they experience loss, grief, and mourning. The book includes productive suggestions and personal narratives of resiliency, commemorative strategies, and communal support, while also acknowledging the adversity many LGBTQ people face as they attempt to form families and the heteronormativity of support resources for those who have experienced reproductive loss. This is essential reading for scholars and professionals interested in LGBTQ health and family, and for individuals in LGBTQ communities who have experienced loss and those who support them. See additional material on the companion website: www.lgbtqreproductiveloss.org/
Author: Jenny Heijun Wills Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472126814 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 287
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Adoption and Multiculturalism features the voices of international scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble common understandings about who is being adopted, who is adopting, and where these acts are taking place, challenging in fascinating ways the tidy master narrative of saviorhood and the concept of a monolithic Western receiving nation. Too often the presumption is that the adoptive and receiving country is one that celebrates racial and ethnic diversity, thus making it superior to the conservative and insular places from which adoptees arrive. The volume’s contributors subvert the often simplistic ways that multiculturalism is linked to transnational and transracial adoption and reveal how troubling multiculturalism in fact can be. The contributors represent a wide range of disciplines, cultures, and connections in relation to the adoption constellation, bringing perspectives from Europe (including Scandinavia), Canada, the United States, and Australia. The book brings together the various methodologies of literary criticism, history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural theory to demonstrate the multifarious and robust ways that adoption and multiculturalism might be studied and considered. Edited by three transnational and transracial adoptees, Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific offers bold new scholarship that revises popular notions of transracial and transnational adoption as practice and phenomenon.
Author: Sigalit Ben-Zion Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137472820 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 271
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Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersection of ethnicity, family, and national lines.
Author: Linda Seligmann
Author: Yvonne Whittal
Author: William Robinson
Author: Raelene Wilding
Author: Lene Pedersen
Author: Amy L. Best
Author: Ieva Jusionyte
Author: Christa Craven
Author: Jenny Heijun Wills
Author: Sigalit Ben-Zion