| International adoption and slavery [message #6895] |
Fri, 03 October 2003 02:17  |
tobias
Messages: 11
Registered: July 2001
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So what's wrong with comparing international adoption to slavery and
trafficking? Besides the material benefits both the Africans, the
Third world children and women undoubtly gain when arriving to the
West - aren't the actual practices these three groups are subjected
to the same: a trade in human beings, a form of cultural genocide and
a forced migration? Why are adoption of Aboriginal or Native American
children to whites branded as cultural genocide but not the adoption
of Koreans, and why is the term forced migration exclusively denoting
refugees and not international adoptees? Why are adopted Koreans
excluded from overseas Korean statistics and invisibilised as
perfectly assimilated children to White elite families in Western
statistics? Why are adopted Koreans barred from the fields of
diaspora, ethnicity and migration studies? Isn't it about time that
we try acknowledge the international adoption of 150,000 Koreans as
by far the biggest child migration in modern history and start
conceptualising and contextualising this astronomic forced child
migration into new directions?
--
Tobias Hübinette a.k.a. Lee Sam-dol
Ph.D. candidate in Korean Studies
Department of Oriental Languages
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel: 46-8-16 15 88
Fax: 46-8-15 54 64
E-mail: tobias@orient.su.se
Presentations:
Department of Oriental languages: www.orient.su.se/koreanskapersonal.html
Info Portal Asia: www.sub.su.se:591/sidor/forskning/koreaforsk/tobias/
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| Re: International adoption and slavery [message #6897 is a reply to message #6895] |
Sat, 04 October 2003 05:26  |
J.Scott Burgeson
Messages: 120
Registered: January 2002
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--- Tobias H?inette wrote:
> So what's wrong with comparing international
> adoption to slavery and
> trafficking? Besides the material benefits both the
> Africans, the
> Third world children and women undoubtly gain when
> arriving to the
> West - aren't the actual practices these three
> groups are subjected
> to the same: a trade in human beings, a form of
> cultural genocide and
> a forced migration?
Yeah, they were "forced" to migrate... but not by
those "elite white parents"... They were "forced" to
"migrate" by a society that even today regards
adoption as largely taboo, and largely considers
raising non-blood children to be somehow illegimate
and inconceivable. And you can double that for
mixed-race kids...
When you start your "research," be sure to ask a
wide range of blacks whose ancestors were slaves what
they think of your comparison. I'm sure you'll get
some interesting and very illuminating responses from
them...
--Scott Bug
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