Hoofdstuk 18 - Afstand en adoptie: het perspectief van moeders in India
| dc.contributor.author | Bos, Pien | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-27T11:53:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-27T11:53:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.identifier | ONIX_20240527_9789461175311_10 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90568 | |
| dc.language | Dutch | |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSF Adoption and fostering | |
| dc.subject.other | transnational adoption | |
| dc.subject.other | transnational reproduction | |
| dc.title | Hoofdstuk 18 - Afstand en adoptie: het perspectief van moeders in India | |
| dc.type | chapter | |
| oapen.abstract.otherlanguage | In the past decades, thousands of children from India and other countries left their original families and homeland to be adopted elsewhere (Selman, 2020b). Adoption is usually a joyful and moving event for the adoptive parents, but it is preceded by a significant event: the separation of a mother and her child. This article focuses on the process before the adoption. The perspective of the mothers, their experiences, feelings, considerations, priorities, and ultimately their decision-making about whether or not to relinquish their child, is central to this article. In my research, completed in 2008, I focused on mothers in Tamil Nadu, South India. During the research, I focused on legal adoptions. Research into illegal adoptions is important from a legal perspective and in the context of human rights. However, from a cultural-anthropological perspective and for the sake of delineation, I chose to study the decision-making process of mothers in legal procedures. I sought contact with all NGOs in and around Chennai (South India) that had a permit to place children for adoption in foreign and/or Indian adoptive families during my fieldwork period in 2002 and 2003. Through these institutions, I wanted to gain access to unmarried mothers who were facing the dilemma of whether or not to relinquish their child. | |
| oapen.identifier.doi | 10.46944/9789461175618.8 | |
| oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | 5cae5a70-e73a-4f54-96c8-533084e04e50 | |
| oapen.relation.isPartOfBook | d58c75ed-009f-4540-9bb0-188e0be186f1 | * |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9789461175311 | |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9789461175618 | |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9789461175601 | |
| oapen.imprint | ASP Editions | |
| oapen.pages | 15 | |
| oapen.place.publication | Brussels |
