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Introduction: Waiting for a Better World: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Intercountry Adoption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2012

Denise Cuthbert
Denise Cuthbert*
Affiliation:
School of Graduate Research, RMIT University E-mail: [email protected]
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Consider a social phenomenon which for over sixty years has seen the increasingly systematic and organised (but involuntary) expatriation, migration and resettlement of around one million children around the globe (Selman, 2012). In most cases, this expatriation entails the complete severance of ties with home countries, communities and families of origin; the provision of new families and citizenship; a legal change of identity that may include the issuing of new birth certificates; and, for many, a life among people from whom they remain visibly different just as they remain culturally and linguistically different from the communities in which they were born but from whom they are removed at an early age.

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Social Policy and Society , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , July 2012 , pp. 375 - 380
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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