Label: identity
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Inner Work for Adoptees
One of the highlights in travelling to the Netherlands last month was to finally meet in person Hilbrand Westra, a fellow intercountry adoptee born in South Korea and adopted to the Netherlands, whom I have liaised and worked with since the beginning of ICAV. Not only did I get to meet him in person, share…
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Asian female adoptee review of Crazy Rich Asians
Asian intercountry adoptee Lynelle shares her thoughts of Crazy Rich Asians film.
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Would Adoptees Adopt an Orphan?
Would Adoptees Adopt or Not? This is a compilation of responses from those with lived experience.
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Degrees of Being Trafficked in Intercountry Adoption
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in 1993 Hague Convention, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, adoption reform, Adoptive Country, Australia, Birth Country, Compensation to Victims in Adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Illegal Adoption, Illicit Adoption, Impacts to Biological Families, Importance of Connections to Origins, India, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Politics of Adoption, Return to Birth Country, Rights in Adoption, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, What is an Illegal and Illicit Adoption?Lynelle writes critically about the lack of formal support for adoptees who have been trafficked via intercountry adoption.
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Reconstructing Identity and Heritage
Desiree shares her thoughts on being an orphan and finding her identity.
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Who Am I?
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in Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, USAJayme questions who he is as an intercountry adoptee from Sth Korea.
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Gabby Mentors Young Chinese Adoptees via Art
Gabby Malpas shares her talent by mentoring younger Chinese adoptees through her artwork.
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No Mother, No Child
Yennifer Villa is a Colombian adoptee who has undertaken a project to photograph and capture the experiences of the mothers of loss in Colombia.
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The Power of Peer Support
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in Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoptive Country, Birth Country, Complexities in Adoption, Diversity in Adoption, ICAV Beginnings, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Politics of Adoption, Racial Mirrors, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLynelle writes critically about the power of peer support in intercountry adoption.
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Meeting with US DOS & ICAV
Adult intercountry adoptees meet with the US Central Authority to discuss their needs re Citizenship.
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Search and Reunion for Intercountry Adoptees
Search and Reunion in intercountry adoption: a compliation of over 40 intercountry adoptees with lived experience.
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Abandoned Adopted Here: Review
ICAV review of Abandoned, Adopted Here: a multimedia documentary by Lucy Sheen about the Hong Kong intercountry adoptees sent to England.
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How do Adoptees Journey over Time?
Filippino adoptee Richard shares about relocating to his homeland to live.
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Complexities of Intercountry Adoption
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in Abandonment and Rejection, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, Complexities in Adoption, ICAV Beginnings, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, VietnamLynelle shares on intercountry adoption, together with her own experience and hearing from many fellow adoptees on a range of questions asked by a journalist.
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In Who’s Interest are Australia’s Adoption Reforms for?
Lynelle writes critically about the Australian reforms in intercountry adoption.
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Intercountry Adopted into Same Race Family
Prema shares her story of same race intercountry adoption, the complexities of adoption. Adopted from India to the USA.
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Online Panel: InterCountry Adoptee Experiences
Online series of panel discussions with intercountry adoptees on various topics.
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Adoptee Anger
Lynelle shares about adoptee anger, how it connects to abandonment feelings, grief, loss and sadness; the best response is to listen and validate our feelings
