{"product_id":"babies-without-borders-adoption-and-migration-across-the-americas-paperback","title":"Babies Without Borders: Adoption and Migration Across the Americas - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaren Dubinsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile international adoptions have risen in the public eye and recent scholarship has covered transnational adoption from Asia to the U.S., 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBabies without Borders\u003c\/b\u003e 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 networks echoes their fate during the country's brutal civil war. Drawing from archival research as well as from her critical observations as an adoptive parent, Dubinsky moves debates around transnational adoption beyond the current dichotomy--the good of \"humanitarian rescue,\" against the evil of \"imperialist kidnap.\" Integrating the personal with the scholarly, \u003cb\u003eBabies without Borders\u003c\/b\u003e exposes what happens when children bear the weight of adult political conflicts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaren Dubinsky\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor in the Department of Global Development Studies and the Department of History at Queen's University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eImproper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 210\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9.04 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 28, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450333380786,"sku":"9780814720929","price":61.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/272f8733cb63af8ed0d9bbc70dd34bd9.webp?v=1778783971","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/babies-without-borders-adoption-and-migration-across-the-americas-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}