Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
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illustrations, maps, portraits
ISBN:
9781442621145
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1442621141
Series Statement:
Studies in gender and history
Content:
"Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States. At times, adopting across the border was a strategy used to deliberately avoid professional oversight and take advantage of varying levels of regulation across states and provinces. The Traffic in Babies traces the efforts of Canadian and American child welfare leaders - with intermittent support from immigration officials, politicians, police, and criminal prosecutors - to build bridges between disconnected jurisdictions and control the flow of babies across the Canada-U.S. border."
Content:
"Karen A. Balcom details the dramatic and sometimes tragic history of cross-border adoptions - from the Ideal Maternity Home case and the Alberta Babies-for-Export scandal to trans-racial adoptions of Aboriginal children. Exploring how and why babies were moved across borders, The Traffic in Babies is a fascinating look at how social workers and other policy makers tried to find the birth mothers, adopted children, and adoptive parents who disappeared into the spaces between child welfare and immigration laws in Canada and the United States."--Pub. desc
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-341) and index
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Introduction: Babies Across Borders -- Charlotte Whitton and Border-Crossings in the 1930s -- Border-Crossing Responses to the Ideal Maternity Home, 1945-1947 -- The Alberta Babies-for-Export Scandal, 1947-1949 -- Cross-Border Placements for Catholic Children From Quebec, 1945-1960 -- Criminal Law and Baby Black Markets, 1954-1964 -- Controlling Cross Border Adoption, 1950-1972 -- Conclusion: A "No Man's Land" of Jurisdiction.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780802099181
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780802096135
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0802096131
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Balcom, Karen Andrea, 1965- Traffic in babies Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2011 ISBN 9780802099181
Language:
English
