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      Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care’s Resistance in Contemporary China

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      Families We Need is an ethnography of the temporary, yet transformative relationships between disenfranchised, older foster mothers and disabled, orphaned foster children in China, and the power of these seemingly marginal relationships to confront state power, disrupt intercountry adoption,...

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      Product ID:9781978829299
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Families We Need
      Subtitle:Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care’s Resistance in Contemporary China
      Authors:Author: Erin Raffety
      Page Count:220
      Subjects:Society and culture: general, Society & culture: general, Disability: social aspects, Age groups: children, Social and cultural anthropology, Disability: social aspects, Age groups: children, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
      Description:Families We Need is an ethnography of the temporary, yet transformative relationships between disenfranchised, older foster mothers and disabled, orphaned foster children in China, and the power of these seemingly marginal relationships to confront state power, disrupt intercountry adoption, and challenge our assumptions about the limits of foster kinship.
      Imprint Name:Rutgers University Press
      Publisher Name:Rutgers University Press
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2022-11-11

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      Weight288 g
      Dimensions153 × 228 × 19 mm