Transnational /Transcultural Adoption Project

News stories

Select stories and media about transnational adoption.

London Review of Books: The Grandson of Estela

March 1, 2026
Washington Times: South Korea relaunches truth commission with focus on adoption fraud

February 28, 2026
American Community Media: More than 17k Korean Adoptees in US Lack Citizenship. Many Live in Minnesota.

February 26, 2026
Impact International: From Orphans to Victims: How State Policies Fueled 72 Years of South Korea Adoption Abuses

February 26, 2026
NPR: A U.S. veteran adopted an orphan from Iran. Decades later, ICE is trying to deport her

February 24, 2026
Asia News Network: From fragmented memories of shame, Korea-born adoptee author weaves a home in language

December 1, 2025
Hundreds of Danish Adoptees Still Denied Records

November 30, 2025
Maeil Broadcasting Network (MBN: The Journey of Overseas Adoptees Searching for Their Roots

November 26, 2025
MPR News: Mistaken: Minnesota’s Korean adoptees grapple with confessed systemic corruption

November 26, 2025
HuffPost: I’m A U.S. Citizen. I’m Terrified My Adopted Son Will Be Snatched By ICE Due To A Heartbreaking Loophole.

November 23, 2025
CBC: Bill restoring citizenship for ‘Lost Canadians’ becomes law

November 20, 2025
VietNam Net: Vietnamese father, 74, seeks American birth mom for adopted daughter

November 19, 2025
Professor Gonda Van Steen celebrates successful campaign to help Greek adoptees regain Greek citizenship

November 19, 2025
Al Jazeera: A woman’s search for a lost childhood in South Korea

November 15, 2025
After 5 decades in Sweden, 9 Korean adoptees to visit Gwangju seeking their birth families

November 13, 2025
MSN: Colombia’s ‘lost children’ remain open wound 40 years after deadly volcanic eruption

November 13, 2025
BBC: The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can’t remember

October 30, 2025
Christianity Today: Every Adoptee’s Worst Nightmare

October 29, 2025
Legal Services India: Intercountry Adoption and Child Trafficking Concerns: The Need for Stricter International Cooperation

October 27, 2025
Haitian Times: Florida-based Haitian American family reunites with adopted children from gang-controlled Port-au-Prince

October 21, 2025
The Diplomatic Insight: Pakistan Backs Draft Resolution on Illegal International Adoption of Children

October 21, 2025
Newsweek: US Citizen Says ICE Detained Her, Said Her Passport ‘Isn’t Real’

October 14, 2025
Smithsonian Magazine: This Adoptee Discovered a Trove of Documents in a Nun’s Basement. The Rare Vietnam War Records May Rewrite the Story of Operation Babylift

October 8, 2025