OCTOBER09

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

For older news, go to ARCHIVES
 

ADOPTEE NEWS
 

ICASN & AVI Australia-wide Adoptee Events

• Australia-wide Info

• WA: Transracial Adoptee Film Event
  1 Nov, 09

• NSW: Transracial Adoptee Artist & Panel Event Postponed

• SA: Transracial Adoptee Film & Art Event
  Date TBA for 2010

Adoptee Stories / News

• How much does finding my family cost?

• The Narrative of International Adoption

• Asian born surgeon becomes German Health Minister

• An orphan struggles to overcome abandonment

• Film: A Brand New Life

• To be Non-White in a Colour-blind Society: Conversations with Adoptees and Adoptive Parents in Sweden on Everyday Racism

• TV: SBS 2 Part Doco to air Dec 9 & 16
  Are You My Mother? (about Australian raised Intercountry Adoptees searching for bfamily & reunion - followed by on-line web debate & discussion)

• ALAS (Adoption, Loss, Adult Support) QLD

• From Orphanage to Womanhood, teens in transition find a home at Mer Doon

• Adoptee Thoughts on the U.S.A FACE Act
   

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

• NSW: AFC Charity Music Showcase Concert

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

Adoptee Social Events
Australia

• SA: Adoption, Identity & Belonging
  8 week support group
  6 Oct - 24 Nov, 2009 @ 4:30 - 6:30pm

• SA: ICASN Dinner
  Fri 30 Oct, 2009 @ 7pm
  SCOOZI's Cafe, Rundle St, Adelaide
  RSVP to Megan

• NSW: ICASN Dinner
  Sat 7 Nov @ 7pm
  Chinta Ria on Roof Terrace of Cockle Bay Wharf next to Pyrmont Footbridge entrance @ 201 Sussex St, Sydney
  RSVP to Eun

• VIC: ICASN Korean Dinner & Karaoke
  White Tomato (160 Bourke St, CBD)
  Sat 3 Oct @ 7:30pm
  RSVP to Jess

• VIC: Intercountry Adoption Search & Reunion Discussion Forum
  Fri 4 Nov @ 8pm
  Collingwood Library, Abbotsford

• WA: Transracial Adoptee Film Event
  1 Nov, 2009

• NSW: PARC Adoption Events Calendar
  
  Adoptee Social Events
  Other Countries

• USA: Bay Area AFAAD Discussion & Potluck Lunch
  Sat 10 Oct, 2009 @ 11am - 1pm
  Contact AFAAD to RSVP

• USA: Oakland - Adoptee Round Table
  6 Week Discussion Group
  14 Oct - 28 Nov, 09

• USA: Bay Area AFAAD Evening Discussion
  Wed 2 Dec, 2009 @ 7 - 9pm
  Contact AFAAD to RSVP

• USA: AFAAD 2nd Annual Gathering
  6 - 8 Nov, 2009
  Oakland, CA, USA

Camps / Return Trips to Birth Country

• Holt Homecoming Program for Korean adoptees wishing to work/live in Korea

• USA: Filipino Heritage & Culture Camps 2009

• AUST/USA: TIES return trip to India
  27 Dec 09 - 10 Jan 10

• Worldwide: Operation Reunite - Vietnam Return Trip April 2010

• Vietnamese Adoptees from An Lac Orphanage
  Reunion 2010
  Contact Jason for further details
  
   

General Inter-Country Adoption News
 

Books / Film

• Other People's Children: Adoption in Australia

• Pieces of Me: Who do I want to be?

• Women's Adoption Stories Australia 1960 - 1995

• Policy and Practice Implications from the English and Romanian adoptees Study

• International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children

• Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage

• Bananas, Bastards and Victims? Australian Intercountry Adoptees and Cultural Belonging (Kim Gray's PhD Thesis)

• Film: The Waiting City

Media / News Articles

• Adoption Agencies: Get us Children. Now!

• China rescues Kidnapped Children

• Pound Pup Legacy nominates "Demons" in Adoption - you can vote!

• Cambodian National Assembly passes legislation regulating adoption

• Radio: Native America Calling - Adoption, Mixing Identities

• Romanian orphans ready for export to the EU

• newly passed QLD Adoption Act 2009

• YouTube: Search a Child, Pay Cash - The Adoption Lobby Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

• Imagine Adoption: restart of bankrupt agency gives new hope to 350 Canadian families

• Vietnam jails 6 for adoption fraud

• International Adoption fuels "family planning" kidnappings

• Group resists Korean Stigma for Unwed Mothers

• 12 children are adopted in Ukraine every day in 2009

• She Adopted a Child - and then gave him up

Research

• The Search for Family: A Social & Political History of Adoption in Australia

• To be Non-White in a Colour-blind Society: Conversations with Adoptees and Adoptive Parents in Sweden on Everyday Racism

• The Rise & Fall of Intercountry Adoption - by Peter Selman (2009)

• 2008 International Adoption Statistics to Canada

• Australian adoption statistics 2007 - 2009

• PASS: Intercountry Adoption & Schools - Information Booklet for Teachers

Australian Attorney General's Dept for Intercountry Adoption

• General Updates 

• Country Program Updates

• Intercountry Adoption Process

• Updates on Consultative Groups

Education: Australia & New Zealand

• SA: Tree of Life Workshop
  8 Oct 09

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

• SA: Grief & Loss Workshop
  14 Nov 09

• VIC: Intercountry Adoption Search & Reunion Discussion Forum
  Fri 4 Nov @ 8pm
  Collingwood Library, Abbotsford

• VIC: A Day with Dr Dave Ziegler
  The Science of Success in Working with Difficult Children
  26 Nov 09

• VIC: Daniel Hughes Training - Attachment Focused Parenting
  28 Nov, 09

• TAS: Daniel Hughes Training - Facilitating Developmental Attachment
  26 & 27 Nov, 09

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

Conferences: International

• Mothering & Migration Conference
  18 - 20 Feb, 2010
  Puerto Rico

• 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 (ICAR)
  11 - 15 July, 2010
  Leiden University, The Netherlands
  Call for Papers

• 12th Annual KAAN Conference
  23 - 25 Jul, 2010
  Harrisburg, PA

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

• Shedding Light on the Adoption Experience XI
  The Lifelong Effects of Adoption & Need for Family Preservation
  24 - 25 Sept, 2010
  New York City, USA