The Globalization Of Adoption: Individuals, States, And Agencies Across Borders Hardcover

Becca McBride

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.

1107149630

9781107149632

English

Cambridge University Press

21-Jul-16

218

Becca McBride is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Calvin College, Michigan, where she teaches courses on international relations and comparative politics. She holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, Tennessee in International Relations and an M.A. from Georgetown University, Washington DC in Russian and East European Affairs; she is currently working on a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction. Her research focuses on processes of diffusion, human rights and children in the international system, intercountry adoption, and more effective pedagogy for teaching across cultures. Before entering academia, she worked for the US government as a Russian political and leadership analyst.

This study, which makes an important scholarly contribution to a neglected area of international relations, is recommended for all academic libraries ... Highly recommended.' M. Amstutz, Choice 'This study, which makes an important scholarly contribution to a neglected area of international relations, is recommended for all academic libraries ... Highly recommended.' M. Amstutz, Choice