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Project

Discourses of difference in adoption cultures: A case study of Flemish adoptive parents of children from Ethiopia

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

01D01008

Duration

01 October 2008 → 30 September 2012

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Chia Longman

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Linguistics
Social sciences
- Social and cultural anthropology

Keywords

transnational connections transnational adoption adoption cultures adoption networks

Project description

This research project investigates by means of ethnographic fieldwork, the meaning of adoption cultures created by adoptive families. The project examines discourses, practices and networks of Flemish adoptive parents of children from Ethiopia, to gain insight in the ways parents deal with the difference of their child.

English

Dutch

English

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