ICA NEWS

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

For older news, go to ARCHIVES
 

ADOPTEE NEWS
Jan - Mar 2010

Adoptee Stories / News

• My India

• Film: In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee

• First Chinese Adult Adoptee Reunion 2010
  Press Release

• Korea to Haiti: Lessons in Overseas Adoption Corruption

• Film: Off and Running (African-American adoptee adopted by White Jewish Lesbians)

• Adoptees seek to know their Roots for Better or Worse

• One World: Chinese Adoptee Links Blog

• Florent Amodio - International Adoptee (Brazilian) & Olympian (Figure Skater)

• Negotiating Guilt, Activism/Performance and Family

• Adoptees of Color Roundtable: Statement on Haiti
   

Adoptees to Participate

• SA: PASS is looking for intercountry adoptees, 20yrs and over, to participate in training to mentor younger adoptees.
  Training begins 18 Mar for 6 weeks
  Contact Nikki or 08 8245 8100

• NSW: Camp Connect 2010
  Looking for Adult Adoptees to be Buddy's

• Australia-wide National Adoption Awareness Week (NAAW)
  Seeks adoptees to join Organising Committee's for 2010
  Contact Leah

• Tell your Life Story
  Looking for female transnational adoptees, 25yrs or older, adopted to the USA for research

• Anthology on Adoption - seeking people adopted in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales including intercountry adoptees

Adoptee Social Events
Australia

• NSW: PARC Adoption Events Calendar

 

Camps / Return Trips to Birth Country

• Worldwide: Operation Reunite - Vietnam Return Trip April 2010

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

• British Vietnamese Adoptees Returning to Vietnam 2010
  Out of the Ashes II & Facebook Group

• Vietnamese Adoptees from Sisters of Providence Orphanage in Can Tho
  Facebook Group

• USA: Colorado Heritage Camps 2010

• Chinese Adult Adoptee Reunion 2010
  Press Release
  Contact Lucinda
  
   

General Inter-Country Adoption News
Jan - Mar 2010

Media / News Articles

• Ethiopian Adoption Went Awry

• Haitian Couple Await Baby's Return

• Adoption Tragedy Stirs Outrage

• Who are the 143 Million Orphans?

• Forgeries and lies in Australian adoptions from Ethiopia

• Adoption Watchdog suppresses Ethiopia findings

• Foreign Correspondent: USA Fly Away Home

• White Saviour afflicted Christians, Black Haitian Babies, This won't end well

• The Adoption Minefield

• Haiti's Children and the Adoption Question

• Taskforce on Human Trafficking Launched

• Parents killed daughter with Religious Whips

• Between 2 Worlds - Parents help adopted children bridge 2 cultures

• Racism behind Suicide Attempts

• Adopting a hard line on Parents

Research

• The Australian Journal of Adoption

• The Well-being and Identities of 14 - 26yr old intercountry adoptees and their non-adopted migrant peers in Western Austrlia

Australian Attorney General's Dept for Intercountry Adoption

• General Updates 

• Country Program Updates

• Intercountry Adoption Process

• Updates on Consultative Groups

Education: Australia & New Zealand

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

Conferences: International

• Centre for Research: 2nd Annual Research Adoption Conference
  New Worlds of Adoption - Linking Research with Practice
  7 April, 2010
  University of Massachusetts, USA

• 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: Footprints on the Joruney of Adoption
  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

• Intercountry Adoption Summit
  State of Intercountry Adoption
  22 - 26 Sept, 2010
  Ontario, Canada

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

• The 6th Biennial Adoption Conference by the Adoption Initiative
  14 - 16 Oct, 2010
  The Ethics of Adoption in the 21st Century

• LGBT Adoptions Conference
  Our Community, Our Voices
  5 Nov, 2010
  Call for Papers