To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption (Asian America), by Arissa Oh
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To Save the Children of Korea is the first book about the origins and history of international adoption. Although it has become a commonplace practice in the United States, we know very little about how or why it began, or how or why it developed into the practice that we see today.Arissa Oh argues that international adoption began in the aftermath of the Korean War. First established as an emergency measure through which to evacuate mixed-race "GI babies," it became a mechanism through which the Korean government exported its unwanted children: the poor, the disabled, or those lacking Korean fathers. Focusing on the legal, social, and political systems at work, this book shows how the growth of Korean adoption from the 1950s to the 1980s occurred within the context of the neocolonial U.S.-Korea relationship, and was facilitated by crucial congruencies in American and Korean racial thought, government policies, and nationalisms. It also argues that the international adoption industry played an important but unappreciated part in the so-called Korean "economic miracle."Korean adoption served as a kind of template as international adoption began, in the late 1960s, to expand to new sending and receiving countries. Ultimately, Oh demonstrates that although Korea was not the first place that Americans adopted from internationally, it was the place where organized, systematic international adoption was born.
To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption (Asian America), by Arissa Oh- Amazon Sales Rank: #592297 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-17
- Released on: 2015-06-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .70" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Basically, this is a perfect book. By Fred Moody Recent years have seen a spate of books on Korean adoption, some of them memoirs by Korean-American adults who had been adopted in infancy or early childhood from Korea, others academic/political analyses that consider adoption a reprehensible facet of colonialism. In general, as evidenced by these books, the topic seems to bring out a tendency in writers to oversimplify; the memoirists consider their unique (and sometimes uniquely tragic) stories to be universal, and therefore condemnations of adoption, and the academics see adoption as a purely political (and completely non-personal) act--an orchestrated theft of a poor colonized nation's children by rich, white colonial powers.But where others oversimplify in service of their argument, Arissa Oh writes (and thinks) with astonishing care, nuance, sensitivity, and intelligence, insisting that the story of Korean adoption is impossibly complex, and that to consider it solely from the viewpoint of a policymaker or political analyst is to ignore the wrenching, emotional, personal experience of each adoptee, each birth parent, each adoptive parent. Yet she very cogently and persuasively describes the inherently exploitive position of the all-powerful adopting nation vis-a-vis the powerless relinquishing nation, and her analysis of Korean government and US government policy and behavior (and the behavior of markets) is, at times, suitably devastating. But she doesn't settle for purely political analysis: her ability to move back and forth between the political macro level and the personal micro level, making the reader appreciate the importance of each, is astonishing. As someone who's been reading and writing for a living for most of his life, I am awestruck...I've never read such an intelligent, moving book on such a fraught topic. (There's a single line, late in the book, which I decline to quote for fear of spoiling the reading experience, that captures the essence of her magic in one distilled phrase...it will lay you low, believe me.)Even if you have no personal experience with adoption, you will be amazed and enthralled by this book.
1 of 5 people found the following review helpful. It would be nice if a program existed to maintain familial relationships By Tim Realizing there is money to be made in the adoption world and that all involved parties are not as altruistic as they purport to be I wonder what could be done to protect the children from opportunist. It would be nice if a program existed to maintain familial relationships. Profits are made in the market of adoption and sadly many of them are the result of poor policies and self-serving organizations; end result families are disrupted forever.I'm concerned by adoption companies setting up shop in various poor countries. Many appear legit, but even the legit organizations within our own boarders are wrought with deception, corruption and poorly conceived rationales for adoption. Religious and otherwise self-righteous people spend in excess of $35,000.00 USD for a baby; when a life is exchanged for money bigger questions need to be asked. For example, should the money be used to keep babies together with their own DNA?In rich countries people feel entitled even addicted to getting what they want. With adoption, the childless, would-be and wanting parents are addicted to their notions of family. To fulfill their needs a child preferable an infant is required, but then comes the question, where does one get a child. Adoption agencies and child traffickers provide an answer, but the delineation between the two is frequently blurred.Agencies both private and religious exit to meet that demand; further, they tout themselves as “Saviors” and preach to the crowd of would-be mommies and daddies who want to “rescue poor babies”. People pray for children and people prey on them in an effort to fulfill their own desires. The traffickers and recipients of a child self-placate and in the end monies are exchanged, large sums and a human life is sold.The Holt Adoption Agency ushered the despicable practice of importing babies when they airfreighted 107 Korean children to the United States. The babies were placed inside of cardboard boxes with air slits then stacked like cargo one upon the other and on December 27, 1958 the packages were delivered and a new market created.(http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/archive/LysloHHP.htm)Greed, self-righteousness and loneliness thrive in the adoption business.The goodly people who willingly transact in human lives need to examine their motives and the process of the adoption exchange; however, I fear their moral indignation will never allow them to view their self-serving desire as a contributing factor in criminal and immoral acts.The separation of family, tradition, culture, language and birthrights is what happens to poor people and their babies when people of rich countries want a child... Yes, the practice of human trafficking in the form of adoption is ongoing even in our enlightened country. Please encourage legislative change in the areas of adoption and adoptee’s rights.Tim Harris
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