Adoption Memory And Cold War Greece
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Adoption Memory And Cold War Greece
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Author : Gonda Van Steen
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2021-07-12
Adoption Memory And Cold War Greece written by Gonda Van Steen and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-12 with Family & Relationships categories.
Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period
Adoption Memory And Cold War Greece
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Author : Gonda Van Steen
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2019-11-21
Adoption Memory And Cold War Greece written by Gonda Van Steen and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-21 with Family & Relationships categories.
This book presents a committed quest to unravel and document the postwar adoption networks that placed more than 3,000 Greek children in the United States, in a movement accelerated by the aftermath of the Greek Civil War and by the new conditions of the global Cold War. Greek-to-American adoptions and, regrettably, also their transactions and transgressions, provided the blueprint for the first large-scale international adoptions, well before these became a mass phenomenon typically associated with Asian children. The story of these Greek postwar and Cold War adoptions, whose procedures ranged from legal to highly irregular, has never been told or analyzed before. Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece answers the important questions: How did these adoptions from Greece happen? Was there any money involved? Humanitarian rescue or kid pro quo? Or both? With sympathy and perseverance, Gonda Van Steen has filled a decades-long gap in our understanding, and provided essential information to the hundreds of adoptees and their descendants whose lives are still affected today.
Ripped At The Root
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Author : Mary Cardaras
language : en
Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
Release Date : 2021-10
Ripped At The Root written by Mary Cardaras and has been published by Spuyten Duyvil this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10 with categories.
In the midst of the Cold War, these children-many the sons and daughters of Greek leftists-became pawns in the global battle for democracy. In this powerful, un-put-downable narrative, Cardaras gives voice not only to Greek adoptees, but to international adoptees everywhere as they navigate returns to their birthplaces; their birth relatives; and reclaim their stolen origin stories.
Jean Paton And The Struggle To Reform American Adoption
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Author : E. Wayne Carp
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2014
Jean Paton And The Struggle To Reform American Adoption written by E. Wayne Carp and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Adoption activist Jean Paton (1908–2002) fought tirelessly to reform American adoption, dedicating her life to overcoming American society’s prejudices against adult adoptees and women who give birth out of wedlock. From the 1950s until the time of her death, Paton wrote widely and passionately about the adoption experience, corresponded with policymakers as well as individual adoptees, promoted the psychological well-being of adoptees, and facilitated reunions between adoptees and their birth parents. She also led the struggle to re-open adoption records, creating a national movement that continues to this day. While “open adoption” is often now the rule for adoptions within the United States, for those in earlier eras, adopted in secrecy, the records remain sealed; many adoptees live (and die) without vital information that should be a birthright, and birth parents suffer a similar deprivation. At this writing, only seven of fifty states have open records. (Kansas and Alaska have never closed theirs.) E. Wayne Carp’s masterful biography of Jean Paton brings this neglected civil-rights pioneer and her accomplishments into the light. Paton’s ceaseless activity created the preconditions for the explosive emergence of the adoption reform movement in the 1970s. She founded the Life History Study Center and Orphan Voyage and was also instrumental in forming two of the movement’s most vital organizations, Concerned United Birthparents and the American Adoption Congress. Her unflagging efforts over five decades helped reverse social workers’ harmful policy and practice concerning adoption and sealed adoption records and change lawmakers’ enactment of laws prejudicial to adult adoptees and birth mothers, struggles that continue to this day. Read more about Jean Paton at http://jeanpaton.com/
The Imprint Of Another Life
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Author : Margaret Homans
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2013-07-18
The Imprint Of Another Life written by Margaret Homans and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-18 with Family & Relationships categories.
How adoption and its literary representations shed new light on notions of value, origins, and identity
Kin Of Another Kind
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Author : Cynthia Callahan
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2011
Kin Of Another Kind written by Cynthia Callahan and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Family & Relationships categories.
Rereads 20th-century American literature as it has portrayed adoption across racial lines, from Faulkner to Kingsolver
Europe And China In The Cold War
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-11-26
Europe And China In The Cold War written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-26 with History categories.
Europe and China in the Cold War studies Sino-European relations from the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Based on new multi-archival research, the international authorship presents and analyses diplomatic and personal relationships between Europe and China at the political, economic, military, cultural, and technological levels. In going beyond existing historiography, the book comparatively focuses on the relations of both Eastern and Western Europe with the PRC, and adopts a global history approach that also includes non-state and transnational actors. This will allow the reader to learn that the bloc logic and the Sino-Soviet split were indeed influential, yet not all-determining factors in the relations between Europe and China.
Voices Of The Lost Children Of Greece
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Author : Mary Cardaras
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2023-01-10
Voices Of The Lost Children Of Greece written by Mary Cardaras and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-10 with Family & Relationships categories.
Voices of the Lost Children of Greece is a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees in the 1950s after two consecutive wars that ravaged the country. Never before has this group of adoptees come together to write their stories and share their closely held feelings. While many of the adoptees have similar experiences and while they may share some common thoughts about their adoptions, their stories are vastly different, some harrowing, others remarkable. The collection will illustrate the impact of adoption itself over years, no matter if children were displaced from their parents and country as infants or as youngsters. The book will shed light on adoption from many disciplinary angles, including sociological, psychological and anthropological. It will also put these adoptions into a larger historical context. The book is further enhanced by Greek-born adoptee, academic, poet and writer, Dr. Andrew Mossin, who writes the Foreword; by Dr. Gonda Van Steen, a preeminent modern Greek scholar, who pens the first chapter about the history of such adoptions; and in the final chapter, by Dr. Eirini Papadaki, who has written extensively about the women of Greece and adoption, to bring readers a current assessment of adoption practices in Greece today.
Adoption Reckonings
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Author : Gonda Van Steen
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2025-08-12
Adoption Reckonings written by Gonda Van Steen and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-08-12 with Performing Arts categories.
This book presents a new theater play, For Three Refrigerators and a Washing Machine, along with a thorough introduction that provides historical context and theoretical framing. The play with the enigmatic title tells the poignant and forgotten stories of international child adoptions from Greece in the 1950s and the 1960s. It offers an in-depth exploration of the first postwar mass international adoption movement, unveiling the emotional and even existential challenges faced by those involved. Based on an authentic playscript, the book creates awareness about what has not been said, should be said, but still cannot be said about the losses involved in the permanent uprooting of children and teenagers. It tackles the primal questions of “Where do I come from?” and “What happened to the child I relinquished for adoption abroad?” And why did nobody foresee that adopted children become adopted adults who ask critical questions about origins, procedures, and aftercare? Thus, the book boldly reflects on the complexities and profound losses associated with displacing children and perpetuating taboos. Also, it reveals multiple connections to similar adoption movements worldwide, which include countries (and histories) of origin such as Ireland, South Korea, Vietnam, and several states in Central and South America. This thought-provoking book poses critical questions about identity and belonging that far exceed the Greek setting and continue to be relevant today.
Children Of The Greek Civil War
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Author : Loring M. Danforth
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012
Children Of The Greek Civil War written by Loring M. Danforth and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, 38,000 children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece and relocated to orphanages and children's homes. This book analyses the evacuation, which remains a controversial issue within Greek society.