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Amerasian children in Korea [message #6047] Mon, 04 February 2002 16:31 Go to next message
Morgan Pitelka is currently offline  Morgan Pitelka
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Dear All,

One of my students is conducting research on Amerasian children left
behind in Asia after various 20th century wars.

Can anyone recommend any literature on this topic? I've found a few
adoption and charity websites that have a limited amount of data, but
am particularly interested in scholarly essays. All I've found is
Okazawa Rey M, "Amerasian children of GI town: A legacy of US
militarism in South Korea." ASIAN J WOMEN STUD 3: (1) 71-102 1997.

Thank you,

Morgan



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Asian Studies Department
Occidental College
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Los Angeles, CA 90041
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Re: Amerasian children in Korea [message #6050 is a reply to message #6047] Tue, 05 February 2002 13:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Charles Rd K Armstron is currently offline  Charles Rd K Armstron
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Registered: February 2001
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Dear Morgan Pitelka,

If your student can get to Washington DC, there's a fascinating file
in the US military records in the National Archives that describes the
origins of the Holt Adoption Agency, now one of the two largest adoption
agencies in South Korea, as well as "Operation Baby-lift" 1955, which
brought some 300 Amerasians from Korea to Japan to settle with American
military families. A lot of this information can also be gleaned from US
newspapers of the immediate post-Korean War period; Cosmopolitan Magazine,
of all things, had a big photo spread about Korean War orphans (many of
them Amerasians) sometime in the mid-1950s.

Charles K. Armstrong
Assistant Professor of History
Columbia University

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Morgan Pitelka wrote:

>
> Dear All,
>
> One of my students is conducting research on Amerasian children left
> behind in Asia after various 20th century wars.
>
> Can anyone recommend any literature on this topic? I've found a few
> adoption and charity websites that have a limited amount of data, but
> am particularly interested in scholarly essays. All I've found is
> Okazawa Rey M, "Amerasian children of GI town: A legacy of US
> militarism in South Korea." ASIAN J WOMEN STUD 3: (1) 71-102 1997.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Morgan
>
>
>
> --
> *****************
> Morgan Pitelka
> Asian Studies Department
> Occidental College
> 1600 Campus Road
> Los Angeles, CA 90041
> 1-323-259-1421
> email: mpitelka@oxy.edu
> *****************

Re: Amerasian children in Korea [message #6051 is a reply to message #6047] Tue, 05 February 2002 17:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
lawrence driscoll is currently offline  lawrence driscoll
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Registered: December 2001
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Dear Morgan:
I would recommend that you contact the Pearl Buck Foundation (home office is
in Pennsylvania) for suggested sources. It's been some time since I had
contact with them but I know that they had an office in Seoul in the 80s.
Best of luck,
Lawrence Driscoll


>From: Morgan Pitelka
>Reply-To: Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws
>To: Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws
>Subject: [KS] Amerasian children in Korea
>Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:31:47 -0800
>
>
>Dear All,
>
>One of my students is conducting research on Amerasian children left
>behind in Asia after various 20th century wars.
>
>Can anyone recommend any literature on this topic? I've found a few
>adoption and charity websites that have a limited amount of data, but
>am particularly interested in scholarly essays. All I've found is
>Okazawa Rey M, "Amerasian children of GI town: A legacy of US
>militarism in South Korea." ASIAN J WOMEN STUD 3: (1) 71-102 1997.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Morgan
>
>
>
>--
>*****************
>Morgan Pitelka
>Asian Studies Department
>Occidental College
>1600 Campus Road
>Los Angeles, CA 90041
>1-323-259-1421
>email: mpitelka@oxy.edu
>*****************




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Re: Amerasian children in Korea [message #6052 is a reply to message #6051] Wed, 06 February 2002 09:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
michael Robinson is currently offline  michael Robinson
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Registered: October 2001
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Dear Morgan:

I'm following the thread on Amerasian children in Korea and wanted to
encourage your work. This, along with the general issue of adoption, is
very a important and as yet poorly studied subject. You might also think of
contacting the increasingly visible and active Korean Adoptees organizations
in the U.S. and Korea. One such group is the Assoc. of Korean Adoptees of
San Francisco....their email is akasf@excite.com and they have a web page
Re: Amerasian children in Korea [message #6054 is a reply to message #6047] Wed, 06 February 2002 18:07 Go to previous message
Ted Han is currently offline  Ted Han
Messages: 13
Registered: December 2001
Junior Member
One excellent source is the Korean adoptee's newsletter "Korea quarterly"
in Minnesota.

T. Han
Intercultural Insititute of California


>From: Morgan Pitelka
>Reply-To: Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws
>To: Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws
>Subject: [KS] Amerasian children in Korea
>Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:31:47 -0800
>
>
>Dear All,
>
>One of my students is conducting research on Amerasian children left
>behind in Asia after various 20th century wars.
>
>Can anyone recommend any literature on this topic? I've found a few
>adoption and charity websites that have a limited amount of data, but
>am particularly interested in scholarly essays. All I've found is
>Okazawa Rey M, "Amerasian children of GI town: A legacy of US
>militarism in South Korea." ASIAN J WOMEN STUD 3: (1) 71-102 1997.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Morgan
>
>
>
>--
>*****************
>Morgan Pitelka
>Asian Studies Department
>Occidental College
>1600 Campus Road
>Los Angeles, CA 90041
>1-323-259-1421
>email: mpitelka@oxy.edu
>*****************




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