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oapen-20.500.12657-905682024-05-28T02:21:46Z Hoofdstuk 18 - Afstand en adoptie: het perspectief van moeders in India Bos, Pien transnational adoption transnational reproduction thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSF Adoption and fostering 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. 2024-05-27T11:53:07Z 2024-05-27T11:53:07Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20240527_9789461175311_10 9789461175311 9789461175618 9789461175601 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90568 dut application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International H18.pdf https://www.borgerhoff-lamberigts.be/owl-press/shop/boeken/voorbij-transnationale-adoptie?variant=144703 ASP editions - Academic and Scientific Publishers Voorbij transnationale adoptie ASP Editions 10.46944/9789461175618.8 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. 10.46944/9789461175618.8 5cae5a70-e73a-4f54-96c8-533084e04e50 d58c75ed-009f-4540-9bb0-188e0be186f1 9789461175311 9789461175618 9789461175601 ASP Editions 15 Brussels open access
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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.
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