Category: identity
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WGTC: She just wanted a little sister: TikTok reunites two Colombian adoptees raised on different continents
By Fred Onyango Link to story Someone call Disney and Lindsay Lohan — the plot for The Parent Trap remake has practically written itself. Image via Instagram/rachellannaa A wholesome story about half-sisters reuniting from almost 4,000 miles apart played out in front of the entire internet — and it was all thanks to TikTok. In 1998,…
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The Juggernaut: The Missing Stories of South Asian Adoption
For decades, thousands from the subcontinent were adopted abroad, mostly by white famlies. Why have they been forgotten? by Siobhan Neela-Stock This story is paywalled. LINK TO STORY.
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Marketplace: For Chinese adoptees, the cost of finding answers is high.
Birth family search is becoming increasingly common with new technologies. By Katie Reuther Link to story
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Newsweek: Woman Abandoned as Baby Gave Up on Finding Birth Family, Until She Got Text
By Jack Beresford Link to story
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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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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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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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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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