RESEARCH

The following is a list of Research resources on the topic of inter-country adoption, compiled over the years.
 

• Trans-racial Adoption: Research & Consultation
• The Adoption Initiative (University Collaboration in the USA)
• Evan B Donaldson Adoption Institute
• Centre for Adoption Research - USA
• Centre for Cognitive Developmental Assessment & Remediation - specialise in psycho educational needs for internationally adopted children

Research Papers specific to Inter-Country Adoption

• Beyond Culture Camp: Promoting Healthy Identity Formation in Adoption
• Psychosocial correlates of parenting stress in Australian parents with a daughter adopted from China
• Adoption, resilience and the importance of stories: the making of a film about teenage adoptees
• The Relationship between institutional care and international adoption of children in Europe
• Counselling Psychologist: The Adoption Issue
• Foster care better for IQ than Orphanage
• Outcomes of Inter-Country Adoption in Ireland
• Becoming an Adoptive Parent: A Qualitative Analysis of the Experience of Prospective Adopters
• Adoption Competency Training Interest / Needs Assessment Survey, University of Texas
• International Adoption
• NSW Law Reform Commission discussion paper 34 - Review of Adoption of Children Act (ICA an International Perspective)
• Transracial Adoption: Expatriate parents living in China with their adopted Chinese children
• The Internacional Adoption Related Children in Quebec, Canada
• Guide to Good Practice: The Implementation & Operation of the 1993 Hague Intercountry Adoption Convention
• Netherlands: Report on Intercountry Adoption, May 2008

• 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

• Hybrid Reflections on Cultural Belonging in Intercountry Adoptee Narratives

• Reconstructing Identity for Children adopted from China

• Young Adult International Adoptee's Search for Birth Parents

• The importance of ethnic socialisation and subjective wellbeing for Korean born adopted children

• Adoptees as 'White' Koreans
• Adoptees in Reunion
• An Adop/aptive reading & writing of Australia and it's contemporary literature: the metaphor of an adopted body
• Tracing the Red Thread: An Ethnography of Chinese-US Transnational Adoption
• Comforting an Orphaned Nation
• Discursive construction of Adoptive Identity: the case of Ethiopian born adult adoptees living in Sweden
• The Exile of the Body

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

• Black-White Heritage and Transracial Adoption

• Domestic Transracial Adoption & Multiraciality

• Storytelling and Ethnographic intersections: Vietnamese adoptees and rescue narratives

• Identity Formation in Vietnamese Adoptees of Operation Babylift: an exploratory study in intercultural communication

• The Adopted Vietnamese Community: From Fairytales to the Diaspora
• Adopted Vietnamese
• What gaze on "children" is manifested in What is said about Adoption in the UN Convention on The Rights of Children?
• Homo adopticus
• "How much did you pay for her?" Decision making criteria underlying adoptive parent's responses to inappropriate remarks

Research Statistics on Inter-Country Adoption

• Intercountry Adoption in Europe 1998 - 2006: trends, patterns, and issues (P Selman)
• Inter-Country Adoption Statistics
• Trends in Intercountry Adoption (1998 - 2004) by Peter Selman
• Australian Adoptions 2006 - 2007

Medical & Health Research

• Adopted children with special health care needs: characteristics, health, and health care by adoption type
• Psychosocial Outcomes within Adopted & Non-Adopted Individuals (Summary)
• Educational Attainment & Cognitive Competence in Adopted Men - a study of international & national adoptees, siblings, and a general Swedish population
• Suicide, psychiatric illness and social maladjustment in ICA in Sweden
• Health & Development of Children Adopted from China
• Research Booklet: Children Adopted from China - A Longitudinal Study of their Health, Growth & Development.  Email Nancy for a copy
• Unique Issues of Adult Adoptees from a Psychotherapeutic Perspective
• Orphan Doctor

Adoption Ethics Research

• Schuster Institute of Investigative Journalism: Corruption in International Adoptions
• Adoption - At What Cost? For an Ethical Responsibility of Receiving Countries in Intercountry Adoption

• Child Trafficking & Formalisation - The Case of International Adoption from Eucador

• Intercountry Adoption - Past, Present, & Future Concerns regarding Regulation

• The creation and ill affects of the Baby Trade
• Intercountry adoption as child trafficking
• The two faces of Intercountry Adoption
• Child Laundering: How the Intercountry adoption system legitimises & incentivizes the practices of Buying, Kidnapping, Selling, & Stealing Children
• Perverse effects of the Hague Convention