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‘US doesn’t see me as an American’: Thousands of adoptees live in limbo without citizenship
2 months ago

‘US doesn’t see me as an American’: Thousands of adoptees live in limbo without citizenship

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It’s hard to give hope,” …

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Who am I? A South Korean adoptee finds answers about the past — just not the ones she wants
2 months, 1 week ago

Who am I? A South Korean adoptee finds answers about the past — just not the ones she wants

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In 1986, the family traveled …

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How one shaman helps others find healing and meaning in a modern world
3 months, 1 week ago

How one shaman helps others find healing and meaning in a modern world

NPR  

How one shaman helps others find healing and meaning in a modern world toggle caption Arin Yoon It is the day before the ceremony and forty people from different parts of the world will converge in Copenhagen to experience a shamanic ceremony facilitated by 46-year-old Helena Soholm, a Korean American shaman, called mudang in Korean. When I ask Kâlánguak what …

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Stolen at birth, an adoptee sues Chile over thousands of similar dictatorship-era crimes
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Stolen at birth, an adoptee sues Chile over thousands of similar dictatorship-era crimes

Associated Press  

SANTIAGO, Chile — A Chilean-American raised in the United States filed a criminal complaint against the Chilean government on Monday, alleging that it engaged in a systematic plan to steal thousands of babies from perceived enemies of the state in the 1970s and 1980s. The case filed by Jimmy Lippert Thyden González, 43, aims to advance the task of Chilean …

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What to watch in April, from Netflix's chilling Baby Reindeer to ABC TV's raunchy comedy White Fever
8 months, 1 week ago

What to watch in April, from Netflix's chilling Baby Reindeer to ABC TV's raunchy comedy White Fever

ABC  

You can stop fretting — you will not spend tonight in a state of indecision as you frantically search for something to stream. Let me tell you about… Baby Reindeer Loading YouTube content This is the true story of how comedian Richard Gadd was stalked for months by a chatty, middle-aged Scottish woman named Martha. For fans of: You, The …

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Adoptee returns to India from Sweden in search of her roots in Mysuru
10 months, 1 week ago

Adoptee returns to India from Sweden in search of her roots in Mysuru

The Hindu  

She was barely seven-and-a-half years old in 1992 when she left an adoption agency in Bengaluru with her adoptive parents. Born somewhere in Karnataka, Ms. Sandberg had been admitted to St. Mary’s Convent, a boarding school in Bengaluru, by a neighbour from Maddur in Mandya district after her mother’s untimely death by suicide orphaned her at the tender age of …

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Reclaiming Culture and Identity as a Central Asian Adoptee
1 year ago

Reclaiming Culture and Identity as a Central Asian Adoptee

The Diplomat  

You are so lucky." For his followers, many of whom are themselves Central Asians or Central Asian adoptees, his content is more than “just Tajik culture,” but reflects a distinct thoughtfulness around understanding identity and discovering one’s own culture – where we each fit into the many cultures that surround us. “I like the word ‘reclaiming’ more and ‘reclaiming the …

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Andrea always felt like an outsider — now she wants support for all forced adoption survivors
1 year, 6 months ago

Andrea always felt like an outsider — now she wants support for all forced adoption survivors

ABC  

Andrea's birthday is always fraught with despair. A West Australian parliamentary committee was investigating adoption practices between the late 1930's and 1980's when thousands of babies were removed from their mainly unmarried mothers during the forced adoption era. Andrea grew up with their three biological children, knowing she was adopted from the age of five, and feeling like an "outsider". …

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South Korea to look into more cases of adoptees whose records might have been falsified
1 year, 6 months ago

South Korea to look into more cases of adoptees whose records might have been falsified

LA Times  

Peter Moller, second from right, attorney and co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, submits documents to South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission said Thursday that it would investigate 237 more cases of South Korean adoptees who suspect their family origins were manipulated to facilitate their adoptions in Europe and the U.S. The new …

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South Korean court orders agency to compensate adoptee over his mishandled adoption to US
1 year, 7 months ago

South Korean court orders agency to compensate adoptee over his mishandled adoption to US

Associated Press  

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court on Tuesday ordered the country’s biggest adoption agency to pay 100 million won in damages to a 48-year-old man for mishandling his adoption as a child to the United States, where he faced legal troubles after surviving an abusive childhood before being deported in 2016. However, the Seoul Central District Court dismissed …

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Nicole Chung shares her journey through grief, capitalism and forgiveness
1 year, 8 months ago

Nicole Chung shares her journey through grief, capitalism and forgiveness

NPR  

Nicole Chung shares her journey through grief, capitalism and forgiveness Enlarge this image toggle caption Carletta Girma Carletta Girma As a Korean American adoptee raised in Oregon by a white family, Nicole Chung spent years knowing nothing of her biological family. "I remember after my father died, and where some of this book came from, was just this rage that …

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McGowan government commits to inquiry into forced adoptions in Western Australia
1 year, 10 months ago

McGowan government commits to inquiry into forced adoptions in Western Australia

ABC  

The West Australian government has thrown its support behind a campaign for a parliamentary inquiry into the practice of forced adoption. Key points: The WA government is backing an inquiry into forced adoption in WA About 150,000 babies were taken from their mothers from the 1950s to 1980s Mark McGowan has revealed a personal connection to the issue The announcement …

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Swiss woman searches for her biological mother in Mumbai. The only clue she has is a name
2 years, 2 months ago

Swiss woman searches for her biological mother in Mumbai. The only clue she has is a name

India Today  

Beena Makhijani Muller has been searching for her biological mother for over the past decade. Advocate Anjali Pawar, director of Adoptee Rights Council Pune, is helping Beena in her search for her biological mother. But they listened to Beena and her desire to know her biological mother,” said Anjali Pawar. Talking about Beena’s journey so far, advocate Pawar said that …

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People who have been adopted call for changes to protect their human rights
2 years, 3 months ago

People who have been adopted call for changes to protect their human rights

ABC  

For 20-odd years, Graham Rossiter had been driving past his biological mother's home in a small regional West Australian town, completely unaware of her existence. "At the time, my father was quite ill and he called me over one Sunday afternoon and said 'can you come over, I've got something I need to tell you,'" Mr Rossiter said. In Mr …

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Of fame and representation: AleXa’s K-pop dream
2 years, 5 months ago

Of fame and representation: AleXa’s K-pop dream

Live Mint  

Korean-American K-pop star AleXa has wanted to be on stage since she was a kid, but her search for fame in South Korea was also fuelled by another reason—to help her mother find her birth family. Growing up in Oklahoma, AleXa said seeing entertainers on-screen she could identify with as a Korean American showed her "an interesting path to follow". …

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Dutch State must compensate adult adoptee for abuses in 1992 Sri Lanka adoption: court
2 years, 5 months ago

Dutch State must compensate adult adoptee for abuses in 1992 Sri Lanka adoption: court

NL Times  

A woman adopted from Sri Lanka in 1992 won a lawsuit she filed against the Dutch State. The State and mediation organization acted unlawfully, relying too much on the authorities in Sri Lanka, the appeals court in The Hague ruled on Tuesday. She started looking for her biological parents in 2009 and returned to Sri Lanka in 2015. The court …

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Opinion: Take it from an adoptee — choice is what matters
2 years, 6 months ago

Opinion: Take it from an adoptee — choice is what matters

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Zack Ford is an LGBTQ+ activist based in Washington, DC. One particular question rankles me more than others, and it’s one I still get more often than you might think: “Aren’t you glad your birth mother carried you to term?” I am often asked, in other words, if I wasn’t pleased that the woman who gave birth to …

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Adoption of Children in China by Foreigners
2 years, 10 months ago

Adoption of Children in China by Foreigners

China Daily  

Adopter shall meet simultaneously the following requirements: 1.Childless; 2.Capable of raising and educating the adoptee; 3.Suffering no such disease which is medically regarded as unfit for adopting a child; 4.Having reached the age of 30. The adopter's application, family background report and certificates prescribed in the preceding paragraph refer to the following documents notarized by the notary office or a …

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Basic adoption procedures for foreigners in China
2 years, 10 months ago

Basic adoption procedures for foreigners in China

China Daily  

At present there are 17 countries that have established cooperative relationship with China in inter-country adoption. Only citizens of these countries can adopt children from China through the following procedures: I. Submission of Application The first step for foreigners to adopt a child in China is to submit adoption application and certifying documents through their government departments or adoption agencies …

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23 and Not Me: As an adoptee, I'm not even remotely tempted to take a DNA test
3 years ago

23 and Not Me: As an adoptee, I'm not even remotely tempted to take a DNA test

Salon  

"In the estuarine plains of crisscrossing information, history, society, and culture collide and intersect with genetics, like tides. If the Internet headlines were to be believed — "I took 9 different DNA tests and here's what I found" — some folks were leaving no chromosome unturned. RELATED: "Dear Father" letters and DNA tests But mostly people said they were simply …

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Like Colin Kaepernick, I Wish My Adoptive Family Had Talked About Race
3 years, 2 months ago

Like Colin Kaepernick, I Wish My Adoptive Family Had Talked About Race

Huff Post  

Colin Kaepernick recently shared that, as a transracial adoptee, there were some conversations he couldn't have with his white family growing up. The idea was that if adoptive parents don’t “see color,” the children wouldn’t feel like they didn’t belong. One key issue with this act was that, while it made it significantly easier for white middle-class adoptive parents to …

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Justin Chon on his heartbreaking "Blue Bayou": "I wanted to do justice to the adoptee community"
3 years, 3 months ago

Justin Chon on his heartbreaking "Blue Bayou": "I wanted to do justice to the adoptee community"

Salon  

From the director of acclaimed independent films "Gook" and "Ms. Purple," "Blue Bayou," tells the story of a uniquely American family, faced with a devastating dilemma. Through the many challenges and heartbreaking moments of "Blue Bayou," Antonio's loving relationship with stepdaughter Jessie, and his deep connection with a local Vietnamese woman named Parker, who is struggling to come to terms …

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Korean adoptee films pain of mother-child separations
3 years, 6 months ago

Korean adoptee films pain of mother-child separations

Associated Press  

SEOUL, South Korea — Bringing her camera to a home for unwed mothers on South Korea’s Jeju island, Sun Hee Engelstoft anticipated an empowering story about young women keeping their babies. “Every time I started following a woman, they strongly told me that they wanted to keep their child, and that’s just not what happened,” Engelstoft said in a recent …

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World Adoption Day: the journey of an adoptee parent
4 years, 1 month ago

World Adoption Day: the journey of an adoptee parent

The Hindu  

When Bengaluru-based theatre practitioner Sujatha Balakrishnan and her daughter brought their new family member home, everyone seemed happy. The child is so blessed to have found such a home.’ Every time, Sujatha would correct them: “No, we are blessed.” Even today, a family’s decision to adopt is viewed and lauded as altruistic. Among the participants will be Naina Ballachand, a …

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