Asian Heritage Month Lecture: Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America

In the last fifty years, transnational adoption – specifically, the adoption of Asian children – has exploded in popularity as an alternative to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian international adoption to flourish. Dr. Catherine Ceniza Choy (professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of California Berkeley) unearths the little-known historical origins of Asian international adoption in the United States.