What is it about?
Intercountry adoption (the adoption of children from one country by families in another) is often address as a problem of migration. Here, we show that this is inherently a political issue: it is political decision making that enables (or not) such international adoptions.
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Why is it important?
This is the first paper to address the importance of political decision making regarding intercountry adoption. Sending countries must permit such adoptions, otehrwise they simply cannot take place. Whether or not to do so is a political decision and not all countries permit this.
Perspectives
This was a very neat project to work on and it was rewarded with the Heinz Eulau award of the American Political Science Association. Very cool!
Dr Marijke Breuning
University of North Texas
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This page is a summary of: The Politics of Intercountry Adoption: Explaining Variation in the Legal Requirements of Sub-Saharan African Countries, Perspectives on Politics, February 2009, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1537592709090124.
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