Free Download Sara Docan-Morgan, "In Reunion: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Communication of Family"
English | ISBN: 1439922837 | 2024 | 321 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 7 MB
"Do you know your real parents?" is a question many adoptees are asked. In In Reunion, Sara Docan-Morgan probes the basic notions of family, adoption, and parenthood by exploring initial meetings and ongoing relationships that transnational Korean adoptees have had with their birth parents and other birth family members. Drawing from qualitative interviews with adult Korean adoptees in the United States and Denmark, as well as her own experiences as an adoptee, Docan-Morgan illuminates the complexities of communication surrounding reunion.
The paradoxes of adoption and reunion-shared history without blood relations, and blood relations without shared history-generate questions: What does it mean to be "family"? How do people use communication to constitute family relationships? How are family relationships created, maintained, and negotiated over time?
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