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assimilated into “civilized” society. An estimated 50,000 children were placed in group
homes and foster care, many having been told that their families were dead.
• Operation Pedro Pan
Starting in December 1960, one year after Fidel Castro took over Cuba, thousands of
Cuban children began to arrive in the United States. To protect their children from the
Marxist indoctrination of the new government, Cuban parents, along with the Catholic
Welfare Bureau and the U.S. government, arranged a program that flew 14,000 Cuban
children to Miami in “the largest recorded exodus of unaccompanied minors in the
Western Hemisphere” (Operation Pedro Pan, Inc.).
Half of the children met with relatives or family friends when they reached the
States and the other half were taken care of by the Catholic Welfare Bureau until
relocated to other states. The secret airlift, coined Operation Pedro Pan (Peter Pan),
lasted for almost two years. Decades later, while some of the Pedro Pan children are
thankful for the opportunities given to them in the States, others still question the
motives behind the operation. Nelson P. Valdes, a professor at the University of New
Mexico, left Cuba as a “Pedro Pan” at the age of 15 and is now convinced that the
operation was a “Washington-concocted plot to drive wealth and knowledge from Cuba”
(Williams, 2007).
• The Tsunami
The devastation of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and resulting Indonesian Tsunami
left over 200,000 people dead and thousands of children without parents. The ensuing
mayhem and disorder was deemed a child trafficker’s paradise as it became difficult to
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 58 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 46 assimilated into “civilized” society. An estimated 50,000 children were placed in group homes and foster care, many having been told that their families were dead. • Operation Pedro Pan Starting in December 1960, one year after Fidel Castro took over Cuba, thousands of Cuban children began to arrive in the United States. To protect their children from the Marxist indoctrination of the new government, Cuban parents, along with the Catholic Welfare Bureau and the U.S. government, arranged a program that flew 14,000 Cuban children to Miami in “the largest recorded exodus of unaccompanied minors in the Western Hemisphere” (Operation Pedro Pan, Inc.). Half of the children met with relatives or family friends when they reached the States and the other half were taken care of by the Catholic Welfare Bureau until relocated to other states. The secret airlift, coined Operation Pedro Pan (Peter Pan), lasted for almost two years. Decades later, while some of the Pedro Pan children are thankful for the opportunities given to them in the States, others still question the motives behind the operation. Nelson P. Valdes, a professor at the University of New Mexico, left Cuba as a “Pedro Pan” at the age of 15 and is now convinced that the operation was a “Washington-concocted plot to drive wealth and knowledge from Cuba” (Williams, 2007). • The Tsunami The devastation of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and resulting Indonesian Tsunami left over 200,000 people dead and thousands of children without parents. The ensuing mayhem and disorder was deemed a child trafficker’s paradise as it became difficult to |
