Babies Without Borders - 9780814720912

Babies Without BordersAdoption and Migration Across the Americas\nAuthor(s): Karen Dubinsky\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814720912, 978-0814720912\nSynopsis\nWhile international adoptions have risen in the public eye and recent scholarship has covered transnational adoption from Asia to the [url] adoptions between North America and Latin America have been overshadowed and, in some cases, forgotten. In this nuanced study of adoption, Karen Dubinsky expands the historical record while she considers the political symbolism of children caught up in adoption and migration controversies in Canada, the United States, Cuba, and Guatemala.\n Babies without Borders tells the interrelated stories of Cuban children caught in Operation Peter Pan, adopted Black and Native American children who became icons in the Sixties, and Guatemalan children whose \""disappearance\"" today in transnational adoption networ.