JANUARY09

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

• QLD: ICASN QLD State Rep is Anna
  A HUGE thankyou to Ilan who did a fabulous job in the past couple of years for QLD ICASN!

• Caring Chinese Families rescue impoverished Aussie Orphans

• A German in search of his Indian mother

• In my Seoul

• Adoption Alternatives: what are they and why do we need them? (old blog but excellent read)

• Mapping Multiple Histories of Korean American Transnational Adoption

• Paperwork mix up leaves man without citizenship

• Woman told her twin not her legal sister

• She was adopted, assaulted, and deported

• Woman adopted by US couple has nowhere to go

• Russian furore over US adoptions follows America's acquittal in boy's death

• McCain's Daughter to return to Bangladesh

Books

• The Colours in Me: Writings & Poetry by Adopted Children & Young People (book)
  Book Launch for 16 Feb09 - London UK

Adoptee Social Events

• NSW: Teenz Connection Adoptee Calendar

• NSW: Transracial Adoptee Film & Panel Event (sponsored by NSW DoCS & the NSW Committee on Adoption and Permanent Care)
  Sat 30 May, 2009 @ Parramatta
  Contact Lynelle

• VIC: Transracial Adoptee Film & Panel Event (sponsored by Monash University)
  Sat 13 June, 2009 @ Monash Uni
  Contact Dominic

• SA: Relationships Australia PASS
  8 Week Support Group Evenings for Adopted People focusing on Adoption, Identity & Belonging
  9 Feb - 6 Apr, 09 @ 6:30-8:30pm

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Looking for Adoptees to Participate

• YouFilm: Short Film Competition

• Adoption Services Queensland's Review of Prospective Adoptive Parent Education: Survey - needs your input

• Transracial Adoptee Film & Panel Event 2009
  Interested in participating as a volunteer or do you have a film you wish to show?  Contact Indigo for details

• ICASN Perspective Paper - if you'd like to participate in the next paper, our topic is "Parenthood".  Contact Lynelle for details

• Jigsaw seeking adoptees to participate in Postcard project: Adoption Secrets

• SBS Documentary seeks Inter-country Adoptees to participate

• Adoptees who have come from illegal adoptions
  Contact Lynelle for participation in an international documentary

• EMK Teen Book seeking submissions
   

Camps

• NSW: Camp Connection 2009 / 2010
  
   

General Inter-Country Adoption News
 

Books / Films

• Adopted (film) - now available on DVD

• Mixing Cultural Identities through Transracial Adoption: Outcomes of the Indian Adoption Project (1958 - 1967) (book)

• Towards a new ending (what happened after "Love our Way" book)

Media / News Articles

• Childhood stress affects health years later, UW study says

• Adoption & Mental Illness

• Open Hearts

• The Orphan Manufacturing Chain

• Out of Cambodia

• Adopting Overseas? Ask for discount on airfare

• Liberia halts adoptions by Eden Prairie agency

• Husband "too fat" to adopt

• Adoption agencies see risks in tender

• NSW Inquiry into Adoption by same sex couples

Attorney General's Dept for Intercountry Adoption

• Updates on India's delegation visit, vacancy of  a Peak Group QLD Representative, Hong Kong program expansion, Thailand 2009 Homeland Tour, Baby Bonus & Immunisation allowances

NSW Government for Intercountry Adoption

• EOI for Intercountry Adoption Assessment & Placement Service

Research

• Being Raised by White People: Navigating racial difference among adopted multiracial adults

• Black-White Heritage and Transracial Adoption

• Domestic Transracial Adoption & Multiraciality

• Using ECM to explore Identity in a Multiracial Context

• Storytelling and Ethnographic intersections: Vietnamese adoptees and rescue narratives

• Degrading attitudes related to foreign appearance: interviews with Swedish female adoptees from Asia

• Challenging Monohumanism: an argument for changing the way we think about intercountry adoption

• Adopted children with special health care needs: characteristics, health, and health care by adoption type

• Adoptees in Reunion (thesis by Susan Rogers, Nov08)

• Adoptees as 'White' Koreans (by Kim Park Nelson 2007)

• Intercountry Adoption - Call for Papers for Journal (International Social Work)

• Issues in Gay & Lesbian Adoption due for release Dec09 - Call for Papers (Adoption Quarterly)
   

Education

• NSW: PARC Adoption Connections in Wagga Wagga 18 Feb 2009

• SA: PASS seminar 17 Feb 2009
  Insights into adoption: the relationship between birth mother and adoptive mother of the same child

• USA New York: Jane Brown Playshops 24 Jan 2009

Conferences

• Centre for Family Connections
  4th International Action Conference on Post Adoption Services
  23 - 25 Feb, 2009
  Hotel Marlowe, Cambridge, MA, USA

• PACT
  True Colors I: Putting together the pieces of the Transracial Adoption Puzzle
  Jan 10 & Jun 13, 2009
  Oakland, CA, USA