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20 - My Folder Is Not a Person: Kinship Knowledge, Biopolitics, and the Adoption File

from Part IV - Transnational Connections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2019

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Eleana Kim
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Sandra Bamford
Sandra Bamford
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University of Toronto
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The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship , pp. 451 - 480
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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