Explores the role played by missionaries in the twentieth-century transnational adoption movement Between 1953 and 2018, approximately 170,000 Korean children w

American literature abounds with orphans who experience adoption or placements that resemble adoption. These stories do more than recount adventures of children

“The important . . . largely unknown story of American adoption of Korean children since the Korean War . . . with remarkably extensive research and great ver

A feminist historian and an adoptive parent, Laura Briggs gives an account of transracial and transnational adoption from the point of view of the mothers and c

Based on a hugely successful US model, the Seven Core Issues in Adoption is the first conceptual framework of its kind to offer a unifying lens that was inclusi