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Exploitation of Intercountry Adoption: Toward Common Understanding and Action

Exploitation of Intercountry Adoption: Toward Common Understanding and Action The conflation of various illicit intercountry adoption activities under the umbrella of “child trafficking” has caused confusion in the adoption literature. Utilizing a pragmatic approach, this article explores the cacophony of opinions that have arisen with regard to trafficking in illicit adoption activities and identifies the concept of exploitation as a useful framework for differentiating among them. To improve and increase the accuracy of research, policy, and programming, the authors suggest the new labels child trafficking, the sale of children, birth mother trafficking, and abuse of process for use in identifying and discussing different forms illicit adoption. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Adoption Quarterly Taylor & Francis

Exploitation of Intercountry Adoption: Toward Common Understanding and Action

Brown, Taylor W.; Roby, Jini
Adoption Quarterly , Volume 19 (2): 18 – Apr 2, 2016
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Exploitation of Intercountry Adoption: Toward Common Understanding and Action

Abstract

The conflation of various illicit intercountry adoption activities under the umbrella of “child trafficking” has caused confusion in the adoption literature. Utilizing a pragmatic approach, this article explores the cacophony of opinions that have arisen with regard to trafficking in illicit adoption activities and identifies the concept of exploitation as a useful framework for differentiating among them. To improve and increase the accuracy of research, policy, and programming,...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2016 Taylor & Francis
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1544-452X
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1092-6755
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10.1080/10926755.2015.1088107
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Abstract

The conflation of various illicit intercountry adoption activities under the umbrella of “child trafficking” has caused confusion in the adoption literature. Utilizing a pragmatic approach, this article explores the cacophony of opinions that have arisen with regard to trafficking in illicit adoption activities and identifies the concept of exploitation as a useful framework for differentiating among them. To improve and increase the accuracy of research, policy, and programming, the authors suggest the new labels child trafficking, the sale of children, birth mother trafficking, and abuse of process for use in identifying and discussing different forms illicit adoption.

Journal

Adoption Quarterly – Taylor & Francis

Published: Apr 2, 2016

Keywords: Intercountry adoption; child trafficking; sale of children; exploitation; birth mothers

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