Month: July 2025
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KPBS: Thousands of adoptees were never given US citizenship. Now they risk deportation
By Gustavo Solis / Investigative Border Reporter Contributors: Charlotte Radulovich / Video Journalist Shirley Chung was just 16 months old when an American family adopted her from South Korea in 1966. She was raised by a Black family in Texas, went to a mostly white school and attended a mostly Black church. Growing up in a mixed-race family, she…
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Newsweek: Number of international adoptions in U.S. plummets
By Jordan King From the story: International adoptions to the United States have fallen to a record low, marking a 94 percent decline since their peak in the early 2000s. 2023 was the lowest year for international adoptions, according to the Pew Research Center’s analysis based on U.S. State Department data. Link to article.
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Teen Vogue: Chinese intercountry adoption: How one law changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of kids
By Isabella Kahn for Teen Vogue From the article: On August 28, 2024, the People’s Republic of China announced the end of their intercountry adoption policy, and a small corner of the world stood still. Chinese transnational adoptees worldwide were shocked, relieved, saddened, and frustrated all at once. Some had hoped to one day adopt children of…
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Korea Times: Korean adoptee turns personal objects into portraits of belonging
By Antonia Giordano From story: In MI&Gallery near Gyeongbok Palace, a small collection of sculptural works asks a single, pointed question: What object best represents your relationship to Korea? The prompt is at the center of the upcoming exhibition, “Art & Seoul,” by Sydney Fallon, an Asian American artist and Korean adoptee who traveled from…
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The Washington Post: Was he given up for adoption? Or was he taken?
By Elahe Izadi and Kelly Kasulis Cho From the story: In South Korea, the findings of a government inquiry confirmed what many adoptees had suspected for decades: Babies were sent abroad for profit, often with falsified backstories. In Michigan, a man is questioning his origin story. Over the weekend, South Korea announced it would end…
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JoongAng Daily: Adoptees left with mixed feelings, unanswered questions as Korean government reins in ‘baby exports’
By Michael Lee/Lee Jun Hyuk From story: For decades, thousands of Korean children were sent abroad for adoption, their lives determined by private agencies operating with minimal oversight and often incomplete documentation. One of those children was John Quick, now a 42-year-old restaurant owner in Seoul, who was adopted just six months old by an American…
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The Korea Herald: South Korea moves to end ‘baby exports,’ state to take full responsibility
By Choi Jeong-yoon From story: Link to article.
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The Korea Times: Adoptees raise alarm over NCRC’s handling of records
By Antonia Giordano Link to story. Despite renewed attention and government pledges to support adoptee rights, the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC), now tasked with centralizing decades of adoption records, is facing scrutiny over mismanagement and technical errors. Hopes were initially high when the NCRC took over from private agencies that…
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Arise News: Police dismantle transnational child trafficking rings, rescue 40 foreign victims
By Linus Aleke From story: The Nigeria Police Force said operatives of the Zone-13 Police Command have dismantled two major transnational child trafficking syndicates operating within the country and rescued multiple victims, including children, pregnant women, and 40 foreign nationals. The Police also disclosed no fewer than eleven suspected child traffickers were apprehended across two…
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The National Herald: The fourth annual Greek adoptee reunion a winner in Las Vegas
By TNH Staff FRANKLIN, TN Dozens of Greek-born adoptees and their families from across the USA and Greece gathered June 19-21 in fabulous Las Vegas for three days of fun, fellowship, and connection. The annual event was hosted by the Eftychia Project, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that helps, free of charge, Greek adoptees searching for…
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