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- Title
Da circulação de crianças à adoção internacional: questões de pertencimento e posse.
- Authors
Fonseca, Claudia
- Abstract
In this article, I examine a local practice - the circulation of children in working-class neighborhoods of a large Brazilian city - by situating it within a wider context which includes national and international adoption. I begin with the ethnographic description on mutual help networks and family-related values of two poverty- stricken women who have given their children to be raised by others. I then seek to understand the place child placement holds in the life experience of these women, and, by extension, the way laws governing legal adoption connect with their way of seeing the process. Finally, in the light of this ethnographic material on "child donors", I weave a short reflection on discourses held by Europeans and North Americans on adoption, questioning the particular way these discourses filter through to and operate on the international arena.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; ADOPTION; WORKING class; FAMILY values; ETHNOLOGY; SOCIAL conditions of women
- Publication
Cadernos PAGU, 2006, Issue 26, p11
- ISSN
0104-8333
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0104-83332006000100002