Tag: adoptees
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Amid global adoption reckoning, adoptees fight long-standing narrative they should be ‘grateful’
Cosette Eisenhauer-Epp, a Chinese transracial adoptee with white parents, said she remembers a salient moment after the March 2022 Atlanta-area spa shootings. “The people he shot look like me, but he’s the same ethnicity as my parents, so where do I go from that?” said Eisenhauer-Epp, a 23-year-old master’s student at the University of Texas…
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Chinese adoptees say they feel conflicted after China announces end to international adoptions
After China announced earlier this month that it is suspending international adoptions, Maze Felix, a 28-year-old Chinese adoptee, said they were struck with a heady mix of “anger, relief, grief, confusion — all of it.” Felix, who uses they/them pronouns, is among the more than 80,000 children who were adopted from China to the U.S.…
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Korean adoptees say they were ‘commodified’ and governments ignored fraud, investigation finds
An International Social Service social worker who visited the U.S. Embassy in Seoul around that time found what she saw “distasteful,” according to documents at the agency’s archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries. “It showed the callous way in which children going to the US. were processed, to me, it was a real assembly…