| Summary |
"This book expands our understanding of a growing, yet largely unstudied phenomenon: the flow of children across borders through intercountry adoption. What explains the spread of intercountry adoption through the international system over time? McBride investigates the interconnected networks of states, individuals, and adoption agencies that have collaborated to develop the practice of intercountry adoption we see today. This book tells the story of how adoption agencies mediate between individuals and states in two ways: first by teaching states about intercountry adoption as a policy, and second by helping states implement intercountry adoption as a practice. McBride argues that this process of states learning about intercountry adoption from adoption agencies has facilitated the global development of the practice in the past seventy years"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"The Globalization of Adoption Individuals, States, and Agencies Across Borders This book expands our understanding of a growing, yet largely unstudied phenomenon: children across borders through intercountry adoption. What explains the spread of intercountry adoption through the international system over time? I investigate the interconnected networks of states, individuals, and adoption agencies that have collaborated to develop the practice of intercountry adoption we see today. This book tells the story of how adoption agencies mediate between individuals and states in the process in two ways: first by teaching states about intercountry adoption as a policy, and second by helping states implement intercountry adoption as a practice. Ultimately, I argue that this process of states learning about intercountry adoption from adoption agencies has facilitated the global development of the practice in the past seventy years"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. The globalization of intercountry adoption -- 2. The policies and practices of intercountry adoption -- 3. A theory of the diffusion of intercountry adoption -- 4. Data to investigate global trends in intercountry adoption -- 5. Why do states allow foreign adoption? -- 6. How do states choose partners for intercountry adoption? -- 7. The future of intercountry adoption -- Appendix 1. State-by-state sources for dependent variable -- Appendix 2. SAOM model information and justification. |
| Subject |
Intercountry adoption -- History.
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Intercountry adoption -- Political aspects.
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| Standard # |
9781107149632 (hardback) |
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1107149630 (hardback) |
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40026274823 |
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