Between colourblindness and ethnicisation: Transnational adoptees and race in a Swedish context
Author
Summary, in English
When and how are issues of race and ethnicity articulated
in the everyday lives of transnational adoptees in
Sweden? Which discursive and practical ambivalences
and conflicts do they provoke? What happens with issues
of race in a country where antiracist colourblindness is the
norm, and where there has been no debate on whether
whites should adopt children of colour? Based on an
analysis of interviews with transnational adoptees and
adoption-related documents, the paper examines how discursive conditions regarding race and ethnicity are negotiated in their daily
lives.
in the everyday lives of transnational adoptees in
Sweden? Which discursive and practical ambivalences
and conflicts do they provoke? What happens with issues
of race in a country where antiracist colourblindness is the
norm, and where there has been no debate on whether
whites should adopt children of colour? Based on an
analysis of interviews with transnational adoptees and
adoption-related documents, the paper examines how discursive conditions regarding race and ethnicity are negotiated in their daily
lives.
Department/s
Publishing year
2012
Language
English
Pages
97-103
Publication/Series
Adoption & Fostering
Volume
36
Issue
3
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Topic
- Social Work
- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Keywords
- practice
- policy
- Sweden
- ethnicity
- race
- transnational adoption
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0308-5759