Global Families, Inequality and Transnational Adoption The De-Kinnin
This book looks at the simultaneous processes of making and un-making of families that are part of the adoption practice. Whereas most studies on transnational adoption concentrate on the adoptive family, the author identifies not only the happy occasion
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THE DE-KINNING OF FIRST MOTHERS RIITTA HÖGBACKA
Global Families, Inequality and Transnational Adoption
Riitta Högbacka
Global Families, Inequality and Transnational Adoption The De-Kinning of First Mothers
Riitta Högbacka University of Helsinki Finland
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Acknowledgements
This book has been a long time coming. I first thought it would be a small-scale study of adoptive families like mine. Little did I know then that it was to become much wider in scope, eventually placing women whose children are adopted transnationally centre stage. I am indebted to so many people without whom the book would not be in its current form. The origins of the research on which it is based lie in a project funded by the Academy of Finland and led by Riitta Jallinoja (2005–2007), for which I was employed as a postdoctoral scholar. The project dealt with family transitions. Thank you, Riitta Jallinoja, the Academy of Finland and the other researchers in and around the project: Anna-Maija Castrén, Kaisa Kuurne (previously Ketokivi), Jaana Maksimainen, Heini Martiskainen de Koenigswarter, Anna Kokko, Ella Sihvonen and Juhani Suonpää. Our group conversations and seminars helped me to clarify my aims and gave me food for thought. The academic year 2010–2011 that I spent as a scholar-in-res
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