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Description:: Transnational adoption from Asia to the U.S. was institutionalized in the 1950s, when the Korean War left an estimated 100,000 Korean children orphaned or displaced. At the time, the practice was situated as a form of emergency rescue, an act of win-win humanitarianism in which average Americans could take part...
Keyword:: adoption, postracialism, race, Asian American, transnational adoption, and international adoption
Subject:: Asian American studies and Communication
Creator:: Idzik, Sarah Hae-In
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_1011071 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16708

Description:: This dissertation traces the rise and the demise of the Amerasian in the years roughly set by the Amerasian Immigration Act (1950-1982). I argue that an Amerasian is not simply an individual fathered by a US servicemen in Asia, nor is it just a racial descriptor used to term mixed...
Keyword:: adoption, camptowns, mixed race, Cold War, Korean, and Amerasian
Subject:: American history, Asian American studies, and Gender studies
Creator:: Doolan, Yuri
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14668 and etdadmin_upload_662912

Description:: This dissertation traces the historical development of diasporic Filipino American activism after the watershed 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and during the military dictatorship of Ferdinand E. Marcos in the Philippines. Using multi-country archival research and approximately sixty oral history interviews, it analyzes labor, student, anti-dictatorship, and human rights activists...
Keyword:: Migration, Diaspora, Activism, Filipino American, Filipino, and Empire
Subject:: History, Asian American studies, and Ethnic studies
Creator:: Sales, Joy Nicolas
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14618 and etdadmin_upload_661917

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