‘Homework’ and transnational adoption screening in Spain: the co‐production of home and family

Leinaweaver, Jessaca B.; Marre, Diana; Frekko, Susan E.

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“…In much of this research, it is the ideological work of producing particular kinds of relations that comes into focus. We see this in a series of essays that consider the subjectivities that emerge in healthcare encounters (Alunni ; Duncan ; Lester ; Tessier ; Venkat ; Wardlow ; Zucker ) and in political protest (McGill ; Weiss ), as well as in essays about friends (Miller ), neighbors (Neumark ), and community (Brison ), and essays that consider kinship in relation to microfinance and social enterprise (Huang ; Kar ), adoption screening (Leinaweaver, Marre, and Frekko ), state policy (Sun ), and technology (Kocamaner ).…”

Section: Relationality Subjectivity and Mediationmentioning

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Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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This essay reviews work produced in predominantly US cultural anthropology publications throughout 2017. It asks: What makes an anthropological inquiry timely, what sorts of relationalities command anthropological attention, and to what end? Noting our ongoing methodological commitment to long-term ethnography alongside increasingly important online forums for reaching broader publics and responding quickly to emerging issues, it expands the range of work surveyed to include some online-only short essays alongside the larger collection of traditionally published research articles. Characterized by empathic inquiry, frequently drawing on years of ethnographic and personal experience with the places, people, and other entities that we write about, and often attentive to histories at multiple scales, cultural anthropology of this moment, however published, grapples with dark times while it also offers ways of imagining other, better futures and ways of being in relation to others. Two thematic clusters organize this essay: the first considers temporality alongside mobility and sovereignty, and the second considers relationality alongside subjectivity and mediation. Together, all of these concerns-that are both of the moment and long standing-build a varied body of work that grapples with the interrelationalities that constitute power, place, and possibility. I argue that what makes an anthropological inquiry timely is the extent to which it is relationally informed and attuned to care for worlds that we inhabit and imagine, together. [year in review, sociocultural anthropology, temporality, mobility, sovereignty, relationality, subjectivity, mediation] RESUMEN Este ensayo revisa el trabajo producido en publicaciones de antropología cultural predominantemente estadounidenses durante 2017. Pregunta: ¿Qué hace la investigación antropológica oportuna, y qué tipos de relacionalidades comandan la atención antropológica, y con qué fin? Notando nuestro compromiso metodológico continuo con una etnografía de largo plazo junto a foros en línea cada vez más importantes para llegar a públicos más amplios y respondiendo rápidamente a cuestiones emergentes, expande el rango del trabajo evaluado para incluir algunos ensayos cortos sólo en línea junto a la mayor colección de artículos de investigación publicados tradicionalmente. Caracterizada por una investigación empática, frecuentemente extrayendo de años de experiencia etnográfica y personal con los lugares, la gente, y otras entidades sobre las que escribimos, y a menudo atentos a historias a escalas múltiples, la antropología cultural de este momento, independientemente de cómo sea publicada, lucha contra tiempos oscuros mientras ofrece maneras de imaginar otros, mejores futuros y formas de estar en relación con otros. Dos grupos temáticos organizan este ensayo: el primero considera temporalidad junto a movilidad y soberanía, y el segundo considera relacionalidad junto a subjetividad y mediación. Juntas, todas estas preocupaciones-que son tanto del momento como de larga d...

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Section: Relationality Subjectivity and Mediationmentioning

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Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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“…Cultural geographers and anthropologists alike have noted the relevance of place in these constructions of kinship: from the burial of an umbilical cord in a Navajo corral or field (Lamphere 2001, p. 41) to the etymological connotations of the word casa (Spanish: house) and its overlap with the term casado (married) (Leinaweaver et al 2017). Nash, writing about "geographies of relatedness" (Nash 2005, p. 460), highlights in particular "ideas of 'place of origin': personal, national, ethnic, racialized, universal in their familiar and emergent forms".…”

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Papering the Origins: Place-Making, Privacy, and Kinship in Spanish International Adoption

Leinaweaver

2019

Genealogy

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This article examines place and privacy as two key resources for producing kinship through an analysis of exceptional legal practices in Spain that overdetermine international adoptees’ Spanishness. Per Spanish law, minors internationally adopted by a Spanish parent are “Spanish by origin” (españoles de origen). Over and above this, however, Spain’s Civil Registry Law was modified in 2005 to allow internationally adoptive parents to officially change their child’s place of birth in the formal record. I draw on legal material about this change, as well as online posts by adoptive parents discussing it, to make two claims. First, I identify the significance of place as a key resource for the production of kinship—belonging to a Spanish family and nation. Second, I note the persistence of an ideology of secrecy or privacy surrounding the family that is linked to a history of illicit child circulations during the Franco era. I further show that documents are a key nexus mediating the place–kinship and privacy–kinship relations, requiring further attention to both legal documentation and the proliferation of public personal narratives, such as blog posts, as evidence of family dynamics.

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“…Key topics in these papers include the issue of familial and national belonging (De Graeve, ; Selman, ; Sweeney, ), biopolitical examination of age and intergeneration (Leinaweaver, ), the juxtaposition of adoption and migration (Alipio et al., ; Posocco, ), the geography of relatedness (Nash, ), and the geopolitics of sending and receiving countries (van Wichelen, ). Moreover, scholars in other disciplines have also analysed transnational adoptions with a focus on space and place (Leinaweaver et al., ; Seligman, ). Taking adoption as an essential geography practice, this paper adds to the geography of adoption literature by examining one aspect of this research: the production of adoptable children.…”

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Making adoptable children: A case study of the child assessment programme for Chinese–US transnational adoptions

YiXin

2019

Area

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The transnational adoption process includes a child assessment programme that evaluates children's mental and physical health to select and produce adoptable children. Based on ethnographic research conducted in 2015 and 2016, this paper describes in detail this assessment programme, which compares children to their global peers. Adoption agencies and Chinese social welfare institutions rank children by their likelihood of being adopted. The closer a child is to what is considered normal, the easier it will be for the child to be adopted. This socially and spatially shifting ranking of the children's normality enables the flow of children from societies that exclude children from families to societies that re‐include them in families. In addition to ranking the children, the process also involves further normalising them. This paper contributes to the geography of adoption by focusing on the normalisation process implemented to produce adoptable children.

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‘Homework’ and transnational adoption screening in Spain: the co‐production of home and family

Cited by 17 publications

References 47 publications

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Papering the Origins: Place-Making, Privacy, and Kinship in Spanish International Adoption

Making adoptable children: A case study of the child assessment programme for Chinese–US transnational adoptions

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