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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Adoptee"”.
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Ghost Kingdoms and Phantom Worlds: Narrative strategies in adoptee autofiction
… theory of the Ghost Kingdom as it appears in adoptee-written narratives. Lifton describes the Ghost Kingdom as a “psychic reality” where what-if projections of lost or wished for persons (often conceptualized as characters) reside. Her theory describes both the ontological position of the …
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BEYOND HONORARY WHITENESS: IDEOLOGIES OF BELONGING AND KOREAN ADOPTEE IDENTITIES
… and a racial order – and the effects on Korean adoptees’ identity development. This dissertation asks the following questions: What role has Korean adoption played in the U.S. racial formation? What role do various levels of social structure (e.g., media, interpersonal interactions) play in …
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That Could Be Me: Asian Adoptee Identity Formation and Violence
… acts as a preceding event to a change in Asian adoptees' identities. I use the word 'violence' to encompass a wide range of experiences and events including 20th-century US-Asia wars, hate crimes, mass shootings, sexual violence, bullying, microaggressions, harassment, and more. This research …
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Development and Assessment of the Adoptee Experiences of Microaggressions Scale (AEMS)
… mental health services at higher rates than non-adoptees (Juffer & van Ijzendoorn, 2005; Keyes et al., 2008). One contributing factor to such symptoms may be their experiences of microaggressions and social stigma (Wegar, 2000). Microaggressions have been defined as "everyday slights, putdowns, …
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Composing a Literary Adoption Memoir and Self Through Creative Nonfiction Memoir Writing
… adoption, and parenting an adoptee as an adult adoptee. For this project, I share my process and the theories that validate and inform my felt experiences as an adoptee and as an adoptive mom. I use the literary tools in the creative nonfiction genre to write not a mere …
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Adoption reunion : reclaiming the lost object : a psychoanalytic and object relations approach to understanding the adoptee's experience of reunion with the birth mother
This study explores the adoptee's desire for, and experience of reunion with the birth mother, from within a Psychoanalytic framework, and with an emphasis upon the Object Relations Theory perspective. Adoption reunion may be considered to be an attempt on the part of the adoptee to reclaim the …
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Adoptees and adoptive families: an exploration of the formation of the legal family, the stigma of adoption, and the decision to search
… research on adoption, and surveys of 41 adoptees and 15 adoptive parents in order to address four primary questions: 1.What factors have influenced adoption historically, and continue to influence current practices? 2.In what ways does the legal system treat the adoptive family …
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Beneath the Beauty: A Mixed Method Approach to Examining Identity Negotiation Among Asian Transracial Adoptees
… complex identities: Asian transracial adoptees. In the past six decades, more than 280,000 infants and children in Asian countries were abandoned or surrendered to social welfare institutes and were subsequently adopted by American families, making Asian transracial adoptees (ATRAs) a …
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Nafanua and the Afakasi sister : seven linked lyrical memoir essays with a craft essay
… by connecting readers to culture, and the adoptee experience, and to encourage readers to discover and feed their own curiosities about identity. My collection is a journey about who I thought I was, the scientific discovery of who I am, and how I have become part of a family I never knew …
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The writing and research of the novel 'The Shaded Side'
… period against the present day story of an adult adoptee searching for the identity of her birth mother. Research into the history of TB treatment in Australia and into broader representations of illness and disease has been required for the project. General themes include: sanatorium treatment, …
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Une comparaison du parler populaire dans l'oeuvre de Molière et dans celle de Marivaux, avec le français acadien traditionnel
… comedies de Marivaux. La demarche que nous avons adoptee nous conduit, dans un premier temps, a relever les elements linguistiques du parler populaire qui ne se conforment pas au francais standard, c'est-a-dire les ecarts phonetiques, morphologiques, syntaxiques, et lexicaux, analyse precedee dans …
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Adoption : salient experiences of a sample of adult adoptees
… responses. The sample comprised eighty-two adult adoptees between the ages of eighteen and seventy, of whom seventy-one percent were female, twenty-nine percent male, 58,5 percent Afrikaans speaking and 41,5 percent English- speaking. Cultural differences were found in the responses of the two …
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The Role of Hardiness, Family Hardiness, and Parenting Self-Efficacy on Parenting Stress in Adoptive Parents
… the duration of the adoption experience. Adoptee background factors have been found to contribute to increased levels of parenting stress and distress in adoptive parents (Brooks, Simmel, Wind, & Barth, 2005; McDonald, Lieberman, Partridge, & Homby, 1991; McGlone et al., 2002). Increased …
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Adoption reunion and the experience of the adoptive parents : an exploratory study
… reunion registry allowing birth parents and adoptees to become reacquainted. Studies of adoption reunion have focused primarily on the experience from the perspective of the adoptee or birth parent. There has been little attention given, to date, to the adoptive parents' experiences when …
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"""We are here because you were there"": Kinship and loss in 20th- and 21st-century Korean American Narratives"
… invisibility of the figure of the transnational adoptee. While Asian American scholars have called for a shift away from an exclusive focus on intergenerational questions in approaches to Asian American literary studies, I revisit questions of generational models to foreground the transnational …
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Embodying The Hyphen: An Ethnography On Korean Adoptees
… in 1953. Due to the large number of Korean adoptees living in the U.S. the potential for ethnographic research is profound. Past studies have favored adoptive parents’ perspectives over that of Korean adoptees. This study aims to address that limitation in hopes of contributing to the …
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Representations of Transracial Korean *Adoption in Children's Literature
… and my observations during an international adoptee conference, it is clear that this literature does not holistically mirror the experiences of transracially adopted Koreans. Most of the stories were written with the implicitly didactic purpose of describing and explaining adoption, often at …
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"Being" and "doing" - adoptive parents' experience of parenthood in the context of open adoption : an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… arrangements for ongoing contact between the adoptee and their birth relatives have also become more common. The need to understand adoptive parents' perspectives on these practices of open adoption was identified as a research priority by the Care Pathways and Outcomes Study, and is the …
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A Phenomenological Exploration of Korean Adoptees’ Multiple Minority Identities
… international transracial adoption, Korean adoptees may undergo events that impact the salience and development of multiple minority identities, including: racial, ethnic, cultural, and as an adoptee. These experiences may be shaped by interactions with socialization/reculturation …
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Weaving their identities: a narrative inquiry into Korean heritage language learners
… Moreover, very few studies include Korean adoptee students’ identity formation within a heritage language-learning context. This research studied how Korean heritage language learners’ cultural and language learning backgrounds shaped who they were, how they (re)constructed and negotiated …
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