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Van Steen, Gonda

 
9780472038817: Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid pro quo?
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ISBN 10: 0472038818 ISBN 13: 9780472038817
Editorial: The University of Michigan Press, 2021

Sinopsis

This book presents a committed quest to unravel and document the postwar adoption networks that placed more than 3,000 Greek children in the United States, in a movement accelerated by the aftermath of the Greek Civil War and by the new conditions of the global Cold War. Greek-to-American adoptions and, regrettably, also their transactions and transgressions, provided the blueprint for the first large-scale international adoptions, well before these became a mass phenomenon typically associated with Asian children. The story of these Greek postwar and Cold War adoptions, whose procedures ranged from legal to highly irregular, has never been told or analyzed before. Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece answers the important questions: How did these adoptions from Greece happen? Was there any money involved? Humanitarian rescue or kid pro quo? Or both? With sympathy and perseverance, Gonda Van Steen has filled a decades-long gap in our understanding, and provided essential information to the hundreds of adoptees and their descendants whose lives are still affected today.

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Gonda Van Steen is Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, and Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College London.

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Editorial
The University of Michigan Press
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0472038818
ISBN 13 
9780472038817
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
350
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