AUGUST09

Attached is recent news in the adoption arena that is relevant to inter-country adoption.

For older news, go to ARCHIVES
 

ADOPTEE NEWS
 

Adoptee Stories / News

• Transnational Adoption and the Financialization of Everything

• Resilience (new Film) Fan Page

• Going Home (new Film) screening at Rhode Island Film Festival

• QLD Transracial Adoptee Films & Panel Event: Photos

• Adoptee Artist Blogspot: A17P

• Appreciating differences gave Kraft Foods executive perspective

• Belleville woman being kicked out of Canada

• International Adoption and the Fight for Human Rights

• Nora's Journey: A Korean adoptee's life in a Chinese family

• Trading in Babies

• Another Country, not my own

• TRACK draft revisions of Korean adoption laws

• YouTube: The Mystery of Who I Am?

• Give a thought to the Adoptees

Adoptees to Participate

• SA: Film & Arts Festival looking for Adoptee Artists & Volunteers

• SA: Adoptee Mentors 20yrs+ for mentoring younger adoptees.  Full training provided by PASS.  Contact Sandi

• Call for Korean adoptees to participate in Book

• NSW: AFC Charity Music Showcase Concert

• UK: BAAF Book - Call for Adopted Adults to participate in Anthology of Writing & Poetry on lifelong experience of adoption

• Australian Journal of Adoption: Collecting material for 2nd Edition - for submissions contact Thomas Graham

ICASN & AVI Australia-wide Adoptee Events

• Australia-wide Info

• WA: Transracial Adoptee Film Event
  1 Nov, 09

• NSW: Transracial Adoptee Artist & Panel Event 7 Nov, 09

• SA: Transracial Adoptee Film & Art Event
  Date TBA

• VIC: Transracial Adoptee Films & Seminar Event

• QLD: Transracial Adoptee Films & Panel Event
   

Adoptee Social Events

• VIC: Adoptee Social Lunch
  Sun 16 Aug, 12:30pm
  North Fitzroy Star, 32 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North
  Contact Jess to RSVP

• NSW: NSW: Transracial Adoptee Artist & Panel Event
  7 Nov, 2009

• NSW: PARC Adoption Events Calendar

• USA: AFAAD Nov 09 Annual Gathering

• Netherlands: IKAA Gathering 2009
  6 - 9 August, 2009

Camps

• USA: Filipino Heritage & Culture Camps 2009

• USA: Catalyst Foundation Culture Camps - Vietnam
  July 2009

General Inter-Country Adoption News
 

Books / Film

• International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children

• Adoption Reunion: Ecstasy or Agony?

• Questions Adoptees Ask

• BFI London Film Festival: Under the Tree

Media / News Articles

• Romanian International Adoption Update

• Exec Summary: Ryan Report for the Inquiry into Irish Children in Catholic Care

• Endemic rape and abuse of Irish children in Catholic Care, inquiry finds

• Perspectives on local and intercountry adoption: Canada, US, and Australia - a report on adoption seminar and roundtable

• The Show Must Go On (YouTube)

• Online databank to streamline Indian adoption process

• (Film) Adopted by Barb Lee - new videos available online

• Transracial adoption crosses the color line

• French Statistics on Adoption 2008

• Parents seek answers after children abducted

• Dear Birth Mother, Please Hit Reply

• Bid to help the Other Stolen Generation

• CDC rules that Scruggs family must leave adopted daughter in China

• Homosexuality not normal, MP tells parliament

• Korea slowly closes to Adoption

• Dutch Government Buries Investigation

Research

• Analysis of Intercountry Adoption Policy & Regulations: The case of Korea

• Guidelines on Post Adoption Services

• Child Trafficking in the European Union: Challenges, Perspectives and Good Practices

• World Vision Report: 10 Things You Need to Know about Human Trafficking (p28 - 31 Adoption is still a trafficking risk)

• Journal of Korean Adoption Studies
  Call for Papers deadline 1 Sept 09

Attorney General's Dept for Intercountry Adoption

• Updates on China's document processing information, delegation visit to Phillippines, delegation visit to Ethiopia, Thailand meeting & Nativeland tour

• Country Program Updates for Taiwan

• Intercountry Adoption Process

Education

• NSW: Insights Into Adoption
  19 Aug 09

• VIC: PPSS Book Club & Discussion Evening
  11 Sept 09 Article for Discussion

• SA: Joys & Challenges of Parenting your Adopted Child
  July & August 09

• SA: Family Korean Language & Culture Course
  30 Jul - 17 Sept 09

• SA: Therapuetic Parenting for Adoptive Parents
  October & November, 09

• Input needed for: Transracial Adoptive Parenting Initiative - Canada Ontario

• Jayne Schooler in New Zealand, June 2010
  Assessing, Preparing & Supporting Families caring for Traumatized Children and Children in Out-of-Home Care

Conferences

• The 11th Annual KAAN Conference
  Extending the Family of Korean Adoption
  31 Jul - 2 Aug 2009
  Denver, Colorado, USA

• Annual NACAC Conference
  13 - 15 August, 2009
  Columbus, Ohio

• Australian National Forum on Post Adoption
  for workers in Govt & Non-Govt sector only
  15 - 17 Sept 2009
  Adelaide, SA, Australia

• 41st Anniversary Convention
  Northeast Modern Language Association
  7 - 11 April, 2010
  Montreal Quebec, Canada
  Calls for papers : Adoption Memoirs

• Alliance for the study of Adoption & Culture
  3rd International Conference, 2010
  Adoption: Secret Histories, Public Policies
  20 - 23 May, 2010
  Cambridge, MA, USA

• Adoption Conference 2010: Connections
  4 - 6 June, 2010
  Mount Wellington, Auckland, New Zealand
  Details

• 3rd International Conference on Adoption Research
  11 - 15 July, 2010
  Leiden University, The Netherlands
  Papers from 2nd Conference here

• Call for Papers (ends Sept 15, 2009) for
  The 2nd International Symposium on Korean Studies (sponsored by IKAA)
  3 August, 2010
  Seoul, Korea