Month: March 2026
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174 Overseas Adoptees Speak Out: “Unable to Find Our Roots, Living as Outsiders”
byKim Bokyung Link to story Editor’s NoteThe history of overseas adoption has not ended, even after more than 70 years. Overseas adoption, which began after the Korean War to reduce the number of orphans, has continued to this day under the perception that it saves welfare budgets and even brings in foreign currency. However, the…
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Podcast: Some international adoptees face citizenship precarity amid immigration enforcement surge
Nina Moini and Alanna Elder Link to story Attorney Gregory Luce poses for a portrait in his south Minneapolis home on July 15, 2024. Luce, who was adopted in the District of Columbia as a child, founded the Adoptee Rights Law Center and is the executive director of Adoptees United Inc. Ben Hovland | MPR News file Attorney…
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Greek Adoptees Return to Greece for Fifth Annual Reunion
by Tasos Kokkinidis Link to story A group of Greek-born adoptees pose at Delphi at the Second Adoptee Reunion in 2023. Credit: The Eftychia Project Greek adoptees from across the USA and around the globe will head to the land of their birth on October 11-17, 2026 for the Fifth Annual Greek Adoptee Reunion. The…
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The Lost Children: Indian Adoptees Confront Identity, Trauma, and the Cost of ‘Rescue’
Indian children adopted and raised by white parents inhabit an uncomfortable space — aware of what adoption gave them, unwilling to pretend it cost nothing. By Annapurna Devipandey and Hannah Deixler Link to story Are we mother and daughter in every lifetime? I hope not. I hope in another life I am never born /…
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Born Abroad and Fearful of ICE, Adoptees Try to Prove They Belong
Up to 200,000 people adopted as children from abroad are vulnerable to deportation by an administration searching for problems with their citizenship. By Elizabeth Williamson Link to story Tiko’ Rujux-Xicay worries about increased immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities of Minnesota as residents report people being questioned and detained regardless of their citizenship status.Credit…Jamie Kelter…
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Haitian adoptee with disabilities returns to U.S., seeks ‘freedom’ after years of ordeal
Adopted by an American family as a child, Joie Laughlin endured years of abuse in the U.S. and at a Jamaican boarding school, which left her stranded in Haiti for three months— now back in the U.S., she hopes to reunite with her older sister and rebuild her life Link to story. By Onz Chéry
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Swedish Adoptee Discovers She Was Kidnapped From Colombia at 1 Year Old
By Emma Tiger Link to story Paula Dahlberg from Vittaryd, Sweden, was born in Colombia and adopted as a child by a couple in Härnösand, where she grew up. In the adoption papers, she was given a new name: Paola Andrea became Paula, with Andrea as a middle name. As a teenager, she began to…
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Shaken by their pasts, inter-country adoptees demand federal government broaden inquiry scope
By James oaten Link to story 14 March 2026 at 8:57pm Adoptee Kimbra Butterworth was well into adulthood when she confirmed she was a victim of an infamous Taiwanese baby smuggler. If it weren’t for dogged family and media investigations plus a bit of luck, she may have never found out. “I may never find…
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Korean-born Australian woman overturns adoption as federal inquiry launched
By Alex Turner-Cohen, James Oaten and Giselle Wakatama Link to story A Korean-born Australian says she struggled to remove her adoptive parents from her birth certificate. (ABC News: Maren Preuss) A Korean-born Australian is calling for changes to adoption laws after enduring an onerous process to nullify her “cruel” adoption, which included years of sexual and physical abuse. Last…
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London Review of Books: The Grandson of Estela
By Rachel Nolan Link to full story Week after week, year after year, members of the collective formed in 1977, during the Argentine military dictatorship, as Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo have circled the pyramid monument in the square in central Buenos Aires, arm in arm, to demand the return of their forcibly disappeared…
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