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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Korean adoptee"”.
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BEYOND HONORARY WHITENESS: IDEOLOGIES OF BELONGING AND KOREAN ADOPTEE IDENTITIES
… as a framework, this dissertation examines how Korean adoption contributed to constructions of race – racial meanings 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. …
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Embodying The Hyphen: An Ethnography On Korean Adoptees
An estimated 150, 000 Korean children have grown up in culturally and racially different homes in the United States and other countries since the increase of transnational adoption in 1953. Due to the large number of Korean adoptees living in the U.S. the potential for ethnographic research is …
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Weaving their identities: a narrative inquiry into Korean heritage language learners
… 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 …
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"""We are here because you were there"": Kinship and loss in 20th- and 21st-century Korean American Narratives"
… Kinship and Loss in 20th- and 21st-Century Korean American Narratives analyzes the significance of trauma and attachment in representations of family within contemporary Korean American literature and films. Situating these texts in relation to Asian American histories of warfare, migration, …
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A Phenomenological Exploration of Korean Adoptees’ Multiple Minority Identities
<p>Since the end of the Korean War, Korean children have been placed for international adoption due to their marginalized status in South Korea. In the United States, Korean children have predominantly been adopted to White families through transracial adoption (Bergquist, 2003; Lee, 2003). …