Heritage for difference, culture for belonging: white Canadian parents’ incorporation of black children born in the United States

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dc.contributor.authorLittle, Alix Lesley
dc.contributor.supervisorDemirdirek, Hülya
dc.date.accessioned2011-09-06T21:00:24Z
dc.date.available2011-09-06T21:00:24Z
dc.date.copyright2011en_US
dc.date.issued2011-09-06
dc.degree.departmentDept. of Anthropologyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractProspective adoptive parents in British Columbia are required by provincial law to attend workshops on parenting. Key advice given to parents wishing to adopt transnationally, transracially, or both, suggests promoting a positive identity in their children; an identity founded on feelings of belonging within their own family, as well as an acknowledgment of their background. This advice is largely influenced by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, as well as Canada's national policy of multiculturalism. Bearing these external laws, policies, and ideologies in mind, this thesis explores how white Canadian parents who adopt black children from the United States respond to this advice. Within this thesis, I contextualize the adoption of black children from the United States by white Canadian parents in a local, national, international and global historical perspective.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/3556
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectAdoptionen_US
dc.subjectTransnationalismen_US
dc.subjectNorth Americaen_US
dc.titleHeritage for difference, culture for belonging: white Canadian parents’ incorporation of black children born in the United Statesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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