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one of us as we played games, jumped rope and sang songs. Later that night, as Yessica
sat in my lap during the movie (which was projected onto the side of an old white van), I
wondered what her future would be like as a Oaxacan there in Mexico, where her culture,
class and ethnicity were subject to intense prejudice and severely limited opportunity.
For just a moment, I wondered what it would be like to take Yessica and her three-year-old
little brother away from that migrant camp and back with us to California. Any one
of us volunteering that week could have offered them opportunities that reached far
beyond their current situation. But what would removal from their homes really mean?
How much of Yessica’s Oaxacan culture and lingual idioms could be retained while
living in another country? This project was inspired by such questions as well as my
desire to explore the answers in depth before making any further positive or negative
assumptions about the international adoption process.
While searching various message boards and adoption articles, I found that the
general consensus toward international adoption is overwhelmingly negative. Some
people reason that there are enough disadvantaged children in this country that we should
help first before assisting in other countries, while others believe that international
adoption alienates the child from his or her culture, language, and heritage and is
essentially more detrimental than beneficial overall. Many of the critics based their
dissatisfaction in overseas adoption on the stories of corruption and fraud that have
flooded the news over the years. On the other side of the debate were adoptive parents
and potential adoptive parents who referred to their own stories of trials and success
within the process. I hope to gather enough research to provide provocative insight into
Object Description
| Title | Babies without borders: exploring perceptions of international adoption |
| Author | Roberts, Nicole Marie |
| Author email | n.roberts@ymail.com; simplynicolemarie@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Strategic Public Relations |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-31 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-05-03 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Floto, Jennifer D. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Lynch, Brenda Thorson, Kjerstin |
| Abstract | International adoption is an incredibly complex and hotly debated issue. In an effort to understand the roots of the system, the author delves deep into the history of adoption and the transition to international adoption in the United States while examining the perceptions of the system today.; Using public relations techniques, the author offers communication-based recommendations that will help mitigate any stigma so that international adoptions continue without the negative undertones that are often associated with the idea of adopting from another country. |
| Keyword | adoption; international adoption |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA; Greece; Korea; Vietnam; Guatemala; Romania; USSR; China |
| Coverage date | 1939/2009 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3877 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Roberts, Nicole Marie |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Roberts-4524 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Roberts-4524.pdf |
Description
| Title | Page 11 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | xi one of us as we played games, jumped rope and sang songs. Later that night, as Yessica sat in my lap during the movie (which was projected onto the side of an old white van), I wondered what her future would be like as a Oaxacan there in Mexico, where her culture, class and ethnicity were subject to intense prejudice and severely limited opportunity. For just a moment, I wondered what it would be like to take Yessica and her three-year-old little brother away from that migrant camp and back with us to California. Any one of us volunteering that week could have offered them opportunities that reached far beyond their current situation. But what would removal from their homes really mean? How much of Yessica’s Oaxacan culture and lingual idioms could be retained while living in another country? This project was inspired by such questions as well as my desire to explore the answers in depth before making any further positive or negative assumptions about the international adoption process. While searching various message boards and adoption articles, I found that the general consensus toward international adoption is overwhelmingly negative. Some people reason that there are enough disadvantaged children in this country that we should help first before assisting in other countries, while others believe that international adoption alienates the child from his or her culture, language, and heritage and is essentially more detrimental than beneficial overall. Many of the critics based their dissatisfaction in overseas adoption on the stories of corruption and fraud that have flooded the news over the years. On the other side of the debate were adoptive parents and potential adoptive parents who referred to their own stories of trials and success within the process. I hope to gather enough research to provide provocative insight into |
