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@article{ART002200670},
author={Park Jeongjun},
title={The Unfolding of the Transnational Adoption Systems of the Three Asian Countries, China, Korea, and Taiwan},
journal={Asia Review},
issn={2234-0386},
year={2017},
volume={6},
number={2},
pages={89-118},
doi={10.24987/SNUACAR.2017.02.6.2.89}

TY - JOUR
AU - Park Jeongjun
TI - The Unfolding of the Transnational Adoption Systems of the Three Asian Countries, China, Korea, and Taiwan
JO - Asia Review
PY - 2017
VL - 6
IS - 2
PB - 아시아연구소
SP - 89
EP - 118
SN - 2234-0386
AB - East Asian countries, including South Korea, China, Taiwan are commonly known as “sending countries” for transnational adoption. Many Korean adoptees who had been sent abroad after the Korean War have formed multi-ethnic families where family members do not share common race or culture. The early phase of transnational adoption in Korea was almost similar to being an “exceptional state.” Nonetheless, the placements of the Korean children into foreign families have lasted for more than six decades. China had kicked off its transnational adoption in around the 1990s. Now China has become the principal “sending country,” as how Korea was in the 20th century. The One Child Policy in conjunction with preference for sons are said to be the main reasons why some Chinese parents relinquish their daughters. The transnational adoption in Taiwan is on the increase owing to its weakening economy and lack of social welfare that is designed with the intention of keeping single mothers reinforcing parenthood. Extreme poverty, AIDS pandemic, catastrophic natural disasters and illegal adoption networking are the main reasons for transnational adoption in other “sending countries” in Africa and Latin America, Southeast Asia. In contrast, non-economic factors are the principal reasons of transnational adoption in the East Asian countries. This fact indicates that it is not possible to solve adoption-related problems only by mean of economic development. The East Asian countries face severe aging population issues and the lowest fertility rates as many receiving countries. It is found that these countries try to solve the population crisis by way of helping families from falling apart. Nevertheless, numerous Korean and Taiwanese children, mostly abandoned by single mothers, are brought over from East Asia to be adopted by Western families. Tens of thousands of Chinese girls have been adopted by Western parents. The East Asian countries are boasting economic miracles, the transnational adoption phenomena reveals these countries’ backwardness in social welfare and their dependence on the West. Such social phenomena give rise to collective shame among some East Asians. Transnational adoption has been increasingly criticized in recent years as being unfair to both the adoptees and their birth parents. Adoptees and their birth families, activists make their voices heard recently. This is the very time we should be thinking about the changeover of transnational adoption systems.
KW - East Asian Countries;transnational adoption;sending country;critical adoption study;institutionalization of adoption
DO - 10.24987/SNUACAR.2017.02.6.2.89
ER -

Park Jeongjun. (2017). The Unfolding of the Transnational Adoption Systems of the Three Asian Countries, China, Korea, and Taiwan. Asia Review, 6(2), 89-118.

Park Jeongjun. 2017, "The Unfolding of the Transnational Adoption Systems of the Three Asian Countries, China, Korea, and Taiwan", Asia Review, vol.6, no.2 pp.89-118. Available from: doi:10.24987/SNUACAR.2017.02.6.2.89

Park Jeongjun "The Unfolding of the Transnational Adoption Systems of the Three Asian Countries, China, Korea, and Taiwan" Asia Review 6.2 pp.89-118 (2017) : 89.

Park Jeongjun. The Unfolding of the Transnational Adoption Systems of the Three Asian Countries, China, Korea, and Taiwan. 2017; 6(2), 89-118. Available from: doi:10.24987/SNUACAR.2017.02.6.2.89

Park Jeongjun. "The Unfolding of the Transnational Adoption Systems of the Three Asian Countries, China, Korea, and Taiwan" Asia Review 6, no.2 (2017) : 89-118.doi: 10.24987/SNUACAR.2017.02.6.2.89

Park Jeongjun. The Unfolding of the Transnational Adoption Systems of the Three Asian Countries, China, Korea, and Taiwan. Asia Review, 6(2), 89-118. doi: 10.24987/SNUACAR.2017.02.6.2.89

Park Jeongjun. The Unfolding of the Transnational Adoption Systems of the Three Asian Countries, China, Korea, and Taiwan. Asia Review. 2017; 6(2) 89-118. doi: 10.24987/SNUACAR.2017.02.6.2.89

Park Jeongjun. The Unfolding of the Transnational Adoption Systems of the Three Asian Countries, China, Korea, and Taiwan. 2017; 6(2), 89-118. Available from: doi:10.24987/SNUACAR.2017.02.6.2.89

Park Jeongjun. "The Unfolding of the Transnational Adoption Systems of the Three Asian Countries, China, Korea, and Taiwan" Asia Review 6, no.2 (2017) : 89-118.doi: 10.24987/SNUACAR.2017.02.6.2.89