- A Unique Diaspora?The Case of Adopted Girls from the People's Republic of China
Karen Miller-Loessi is Associate Professor of Sociology at Arizona State University, Tempe. Her most recent work includes a review essay, "The Chinese Diaspora" (forthcoming in Sociological Inquiry, fall 2002) and a chapter with John N. Parker, "Cross-Cultural Social Psychology," in Handbook of Social Psychology, edited by John De Lamater (Kluwer Plenum, forthcoming 2003). She has published some twenty-two other journal articles and book chapters in the areas of social psychology, gender, and work. She serves on the Editorial Board of Social Psychology Quarterly, and was guest editor of a special issue of Sociological Perspectives on Women in the Workplace in spring 1992. She is currently working on a book on the Chinese adoption phenomenon.
Zeynep Kilic is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Arizona State University in Tempe, where she is working on a dissertation about citizenship, questions of belonging, and immigrant loyalties in the era of transnationalism. She has published essays on Turkish women, and on dual citizenship, in Turkish journals. She is also the author of a forthcoming review essay on human rights and the co-author of another forthcoming article on citizenship in the European Union.
Notes
1. According to official Chinese government estimates, tens of thousands of Chinese children have been adopted abroad in less than a decade (CCAA, Reception).
2. The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, 29 May 1993, Hague Conference on Private International Law (32 I.L.M. 1134 (1993)).
3. Although annual data are nor available for the other countries, Web sites indicate that at least 300 Danish families (Kinaforeningen) and 60 Irish families (International Orphan Aid Ireland) have adopted children from China.
4. The one-child policy allows ethnic minorities in the PRC to have more children than are allowed for Han Chinese families; thus, the abandonment of daughters from non-Han families is less likely.
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