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Focused on Peruvian adoptees and immigrants in Spain, this ethnography explores the adopted children's experience of growing up in a country that discriminates against their fellow immigrants.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Comparing Adoption and Migration 11. Waiting for a Baby: Adopting the Ideal Immigrant 252. The Best Interests of a Migrant's Child: Separating Families or Displacing Children? 473. Mixed Marriages: Migrants and Adoption 664. Undomesticated Adoption: Adopting the Children of Immigrants 845. Solidarity: Postadoptive Overtures 1026. Becoming and Unbecoming Peruvian: Culture, Ethnicity, and Race 122Conclusion. What Adoptive Migration Might Mean 148Notes 155References 179Index 193