Korean Adoptees and Transnational Adoption

Embodiment and Emotion

Jessica Walton (Deakin University, Australia)

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Routledge
18 December 2020

Anthropology; Adoption & fostering

Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

"This book investigates the experiences of South Koreans adopted into Western families and the complexity of what it means to ""feel identity"" beyond what is written in official adoption files.

Korean Adoptees and Transnational Adoption is based on ethnographic fieldwork in South Korea and interviews with adult Korean adoptees from the United States, Australia, Canada, Switzerland and Sweden. It seeks to probe beneath the surface of what is ""known"" and examines identity as an embodied process of making that which is ""unknown"" into something that can be meaningfully grasped and felt. Furthermore, drawing on the author’s own experiences as a transnational, transracial Korean adoptee, this book analyses the racial and cultural negotiations of ""whiteness"" and ""Korean-ness"" in the lives of adoptees and the blurriness which results in-between.

Highlighting the role of memory and the body in the formation of identities, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Korean Studies, Ethnicity Studies and Anthropology as well as Asian culture and society more generally."

By: Jessica Walton (Deakin University Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 350g
ISBN: 9780367671488
ISBN 10: 0367671484
Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 18 December 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Emotional labour and transnational adoption 2. Becoming an adoptee 3. “I don’t see Korean”: Feeling ‘white’ 4. Feeling a ‘Korean’ identity 5. Embodied memory, temporality and adoptee connections Conclusion: Beyond binaries: Embodiment, adoption and emotional labour

Jessica Walton is a Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia. Her research is on the anthropology and sociology of education, race and ethnic relations, adoption and migration.