Reparation Acts: Korean Birth Mothers Travel the Road from Reunion to Redress

Transnational adoption has long been associated with humanitarian, salvation narratives. This essay centers Korean birth mothers' experience to rethink Korean transnational adoption, an historic injustice requiring reparation and redress. To explore possible routes for reparation and redress, this critical ethnography restages three birth mothers' travel to Paju, Korea as a reparative act.