- Author: Shin, Philsik
- Title: Diasporic Process and Gendered Pain of Korean Adoptees and Their Birth Mothers - Focusing on the Memoirs and Autobiographies about Five International Adoptees from South Korea
- Language: Korean
- Journal: Issues in Feminism 18, 2: 101-147
- Publication Year: 2018
- Publisher: Korean Women's Studies Institute
■ Abstract The purpose of this study is to approach the pain of birth mothers who have been hidden behind children diaspora of Korean inter-country adoption. The conflict, sadness and pain of birth mother in the process of decision to send her child for international adoption and accepting the separation have not received much attention in adoption researches, which have been mainly restricted to the purpose of family search in a child welfare perspective. In this study as a feminist approach birth mother of inter-country adoptee, it is found that the grief and pain of birth mother were connected just to the diaspora of children through the five diasporic cases of Korean international adoption from 1950s to 1990s. Furthermore, research shows patriarchal contradiction embedded in a gendered and patrilineal male-dominated social structure effected on the suffering and pain experienced by birth mother of inter-country adoptee.
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