Navigating Microaggressions and Family Belonging as French Intercountry Adoptees

Lee, Seungmi; Pinderhughes, Ellen E.; Miller, Laurie C.; Montclos, M.-O. Pérouse de

doi:10.1080/10926755.2023.2198510

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“…For example, Feigelman (2000) found that WTAPs of Black children may be more sensitive to racism experienced by their children than were WTAPs of Asian children. Zhang et al (2019) studied Chinese adoptees’ experiences of AMAs and RMAs from others, as did Lee et al (2024) with diverse intercountry adoptees, but research has yet to examine the potential effects of AMAs and RMAs committed by parents on adoptees. Discrimination and microaggressions lead to mental health problems, depression, and stress on BIPOC (Nadal et al, 2014; Torres-Harding et al, 2020).…”

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“…Recent work explored adoptees’ experiences of AMAs (Garber & Grotevant, 2015) and both race and AMAs (Bebiroglu & Pinderhughes, 2012; Lee et al, 2024; White et al, 2022; Zhang et al, 2019). However, we found no studies on WTAPs’ commission of microaggressions in their discourse toward or about their TRA children.…”

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White adoptive parents of children from China, microaggressions, and parental awareness of bias.

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Sharma,

Harrington

et al. 2024

Journal of Family Psychology

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In this study, we explored racial microaggressions (RMAs) and adoption microaggressions (AMAs) experienced and committed by white adoptive parents of transracial adoptees. Two research questions guided this inquiry: (a) What types of RMAs and AMAs do white adoptive parents of children adopted from China experience and commit? and (b) how is white adoptive parental awareness of race and adoption related to their committing of microaggressions? Based on qualitative coding of interviews conducted with 39 white adoptive parents of Chinese adoptees, the most frequently coded AMA was Biology is Best for experienced AMAs and Phantom Birth Parents for committed AMAs. Alien in Own Land was the most experienced RMA, and Color Evasiveness was the most committed RMA. Parents tended to have high awareness of the AMAs (87%) and RMAs (89%) they experienced from others, yet this awareness did not preclude them from committing RMAs and AMAs within their transracially adoptive family.

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