Month: June 2025
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The Korea Times: ‘Sold like cargo’: Korean adoptee in Norway fights to erase past she never chose
By Lee Hyo-jin More than 50 years after adoption, Jung Kyung-sook plans to sue the Norwegian government for human rights violations For most of her life, Jung Kyung-sook, 57, lived with an unrelenting ache — a longing for people who looked like her and for the mother tongue she never had the chance to learn.…
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University World News: We need to make space for complexity in Asian identities
By Ilyas Gajarski From story: Asian representation has only recently begun to become more prevalent within Western media. However, even with an increase in visibility, representation remains deeply skewed and many Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voices continue to go unheard. As a Kazakh adoptee, I’ve always felt caught in a liminal space. I…
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Big Issue: Vietnamese adoptees are searching for their families before it’s too late
By Isabella Mcrae Link to story. Marie Maubouche has always felt a close connection to her Vietnamese roots, and she wants to learn more. Image: Supplied Marie Maubouche was born in Saigon in October 1971 and was left on the steps of an orphanage when she was two days old. It was during the Vietnam…
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Havana Times: El Salvador children demand the right to know their origins after separation from war
By Edgardo Ayaya Link to story After a DNA test confirmed the family connection, New York resident Sarah Kanfer traveled to El Salvador in November 2024 to reunite with her mother, Eusebia Portillo. The reunion is one of several cases in which children were separated from their parents during the Salvadoran civil war and fraudulently…
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