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Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China

Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China

Wang, Leslie K.

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General SociologyImmigration & RefugeesPregnancy & Adoption

ISBN10: 1503600114
ISBN13: 9781503600119
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Aug 31 2016
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

It's no secret that tens of thousands of Chinese children have been adopted by American parents and that Western aid organizations have invested in helping orphans in China--but why have Chinese authorities allowed this exchange, and what does it reveal about processes of globalization?

Countries that allow their vulnerable children to be cared for by outsiders are typically viewed as weaker global players. However, Leslie K. Wang argues that China has turned this notion on its head by outsourcing the care of its unwanted children to attract foreign resources and secure closer ties with Western nations. She demonstrates the two main ways that this outsourced intimacy operates as an ongoing transnational exchange: first, through the exportation of mostly healthy girls into Western homes via adoption, and second, through the subsequent importation of first-world actors, resources, and practices into orphanages to care for the mostly special needs youth left behind.

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