Historically, much of the academic collection of research in the intercountry adoption arena has been driven and led by professionals with little understanding of what it’s like to live the experience.
This page is dedicated to compiling intercountry adoption research led by intercountry adoptee academics who bring a different outlook and perspective to the knowledge of adoption.
Amanda Baden
Multiple publications
Delaying Adoption Disclosure – A Survey of Late Discovery Adoptees
Bert Ballard
Faith Beacham
Gabbie Beckley
Human Rights & Social Justice in Intercountry Adoption
Teresa Alton Borgelin
Who I Am and Who You See (Bolivian adoptee exploring Identity via Art and Jewellery Design)
Kathryn R Bost
What are you? Understanding Communication Patterns of Multiracial Identity
Christof Bex / Atamhi Cawayu
Comparison between Transnational Adoptees and Unaccompanied Minors
Global families, global inequalities. The politics of child relinquishment, search and reunion in transnational adoption
From Primal to Colonial Wound: Bolivian adoptees reclaiming the narrative of healing
Searching for Restoration: An Ethnographic study of transnational adoption from Bolivia (PhD Thesis)
Can first parents speak? A Spivakean reading of first parents’ agency and resistance in transnational adoption ***NEW***
Susan Branco (nee Alvardo)
Multiple plublications
Navigating both and understanding the complex needs of Latino/a adoptees.
Carrying the burden: Counselors of Color experiences with client microaggressions in counselling.
The Colombian Adoption House: A Case Study
Out of the Fog and into Consciousness: A model of Adoptee Awareness
False Narratives: Illicit Practices in Colombian Transnational Adoption
Liberating our Ancestors, Finding Ourselves: Colombian Transnational Adoptee First Family Reunion Experiences
Andrea Peláez Castro
Adoptar en España: Evaluaciõn y Apoyo para Prevenir la Ruptura (Adoption in Spain: Evaluation and Support to Prevent Rupture/Breakdown)
Daniel Cidrelius
Tourism’s Role in Sri Lanka’s Adoption Practice by D Cidrelius
Chandra Kala Clemente-Martínez
Active Waiting and Hope in Transnational Adoptions: Nepali
Birth Families and their Children (Asian Studies Review, 2022)
Stephanie Cooper-Lewter
Identity Journey’s: Life Stories of Women Adopted Transnationally as Children
Out of the Fog and into Consciousness: A model of Adoptee Awareness
安德烈-安妮科特
Chinese Identity and Nationalism through Chinese adoption and immigration in Canada
Comparison of Intercountry Child Adoption in South Korea and China Population, Welfare and Soft Power
Giving Answers to the Hidden Children in Canada: Causes of International Adoption in China
Farnad Darnell
Max de Blank
Rethinking Adoptee Politics in the Netherlands: A Queer of Colour Critique
Peter Dodds
The Parallels between Intercountry Adoption & Slavery
Problems of Intercountry Adoption
丹尼尔·德伦南
(aka Daniel Ibn Zayd)
Multiple publications
Jessica J Fry
Asian American Transracial Adoptees: Identity Development in College
Ian Anand Forber-Pratt
A review of the literature on Deinstitutionalisation and Child Protection Reform in South Asia
Lianne D Gallant
Karin J Garber
Janeice A Garrard
Attachment and Identity in Higher Education: Lived Experiences of Korean Adoptees
Dominic Golding
Being White: Art, Writing & Performance Making by Vietnamese and Korean Transnational Adoptees
Elizabeth Goode
Amandine Gray
The Political Mobilisation of Transnational or Transracial Adoptees: From Peer Support to Advocacy （法语）
Ryan Gustafsson
Johanna Häggberg
A path to healthy aging for transnational adoptees – a phenomenographic analysis from a life course perspective ***NEW*** (original in Swedish)
Zoë Haakenstad
Becoming Asian in America: Asian American Adoptees and Challenging Identity in the White Family
Boonyoung Han
Kelly Hancox
Nicholas D Hartlep
Multiple publications
平衡两个世界：支持大学校园里跨种族收养的亚裔/美国学生
Unboxing Asian American Transracial Adoptee Collegian Identities
Identity Development in Transracially Adopted Asian/American College/University Students
HeeRa Heaser
Korean Australian Adoptee Diasporas
玛雅贤休伊特
A Quiet Migration: the Acculturation of British Chinese Adoptees in the United Kingdom
Marijane Huang
Tobias Hubinette
Multiple publications
From Orphan Trains to Babylifts: Colonial Trafficking, Empire Building, and Social Engineering
Comforting an Orphaned Nation: Representations of International Adoption and Adopted Koreans in Korean Popular Culture
The International adoptees of Sweden and the theory of Multiple Burdens
Samara James
Turning the white gaze: counter-storytelling as a decolonial praxis of trasracial and transnational adoption *** NEW ***
Lianna Johnstone
Jennifer Jue-Steuck
Reflections on Being and Becoming an Adult Transnational Adoptee in the USA
Eleana Kim
JaeRan Kim
Multiple publications
ICAR6 Presentation on Intercountry Adoption Displacement
Korean Adoptees as Parents: Intergenerationality of Ethnic, Racial, and Adoption Socialisation
The Inclusive Family Support Model: Facilitating Openness for
Post-Adoptive Families
“Forever family is like a manufactured Hallmark idea”: Adoption discontinuity experiences of intercountry adoptees
Out of the Fog and into Consciousness: A model of Adoptee Awareness
Oh Myo Kim
Gabrielle Guiying Kuhn
A Survey of National Identity in Transracial & Transnational Chinese Adoptees
Nicolette Lecy
Ethno-racial Identity Development Factors of Chinese American Adoptees
Hélène Laffitte
Racines Coréennes: première association de personnes adoptées d’origine étrangère en France (1995). Histoire collective et mémoires individuelles. (History of the Organization of transnational adoptees in France from 1980s to today).
霍莉麦金尼斯
Kimberly McKee
Kit Myers
Kim Park Nelson
Grace Newton
The Trauma and Healing of Consciousness (Group Trauma for Adoptees)
Out of the Fog and into Consciousness: A model of Adoptee Awareness
帕特里克·诺多文
Human Rights Under Pressure: The Removal of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child from the European Union’s Acquis Communautaire
双重辅助原则和身份权
Intercountry Adoption and the Right to Identity: The Application of the Subsidiarity Principle in Brazil
Rosemarie Pena
(scroll down the page to find her name)
Contextualising the Black German American Adoptee Experience
From Both Sides of the Atlantic: Black German Adoptee Searches in William Gage’s Geborener Deutscher (Born German)
阿莱西亚彼得罗利托
Black But Italian, Not Just Black, More than Italian
Christopher Nguyen Pheneger
Julien Pierron
Donnees Socio-Familiales de l’Adoption Internationale en France by J PierronDescriptive study performed from the first 800 records of intercountry adopted children to France seen at the Overseas Adoption Consultation Monléon J. V. Doctor CHU Dijon
Eden Robertson
Remnants of Adoption: Rejection Sensitivity, Attachment & Adult Intimacy Issues
Jini Roby
Human Rights, Politics & Intercountry Adoption: An Examination of Two Sending Countries
Illicit Intercountry Adoption Practices: Sale of Children or Trafficking in Persons?
Birth Parents as Victims of Trafficking in Intercountry Adoption
From Rhetoric to Best Practice: Children’s Rights in Intercountry Adoption
Family Group Conferencing as a Culturally Adaptable Intervention: Reforming Intercountry Adoption in Guatemala
Human Rights Considerations in Intercountry Adoption: The Children and Families of Cambodia and Marshall Islands
Adoption Activities on the Internet: A Call for Regulation
Understanding Sending Country’s Traditions and Policies in International Adoptions: Avoiding Legal & Cultural Pitfalls
If I Give You My Child, Aren’t We Family? A Study of Birthmothers Participating in Marshall Islands-US Adoptions
The Feasibility of Intrafamily and In-Country Adoptions in the Marshall Islands
Openness in International Adoptions: A Study of US Parents who adopted Children from Marshall Islands
Social Justice and Intercountry Adoptions: The role of the US Social Work Community
Mary Robinson
Living a Parallel Life- Memoirs and Research of a Transnational Korean Adoptee by M Robinson
Anna Sasson
Prema Suma
Caryl Tagen-Dye
Maya America, Special Issue by 下一代危地马拉: Between Two Worlds
Rachel Kim Tschida
Unwed Mothers Experience Limited Reproductive Choices in South Korea
Karlijn Van Driel
Home and Belonging among Female Chinese adoptees in the Netherlands
Jessica Walton
More than a Korean adoptee
Supporting the Interests of the Intercountry Adoptee beyond Childhood
Korean Adoptees and Transnational Adoption: Embodiment and Emotion
Embodying Multiple Selves: Korean Australian Adoptees’ Experiences of Being and Belonging
Feeling It: Understanding Korean Adoptees’ Experiences of Embodied Identity
Asian Australians’ Experiences of Racism During the COVID-19 Pandemic
希尔布兰德韦斯特拉
International Adoption and the Fight for Human Rights
Emma Wexler
Invisible Immigrants: The Politics of Transnational/racial Asian American Adoptees
Hannah Hyun White
Laura X Williams
The Missing Peace: Offerings from the Study of Adoption, Culture, and Identity
Indigo Willing
Multiple publications
Intercountry Adoption: Privilege, Rights and Social Justice
Hannah Wing
Microfictions and Microaggressions: Counsellors’ Work with Transracial Adoptees in Schools
From Model Minority to Racial Threat: Chinese Transracial Adoptees’ Experience Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic
Hilina Winkenweder
Ethiopian Adoptees’ Experiences of Attachment After Adoption in Australia: A Qualitative Study