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Carina Tigervall

Carina Tigervall

Universitetslektor och forskare | FD i sociologi

Carina Tigervall

Adoption with complications: Conversations with adoptees and adoptive parents on everyday racism and ethnic identity

Författare

  • Carina Tigervall
  • Tobias Hubinette

Summary, in English

This study is based on qualitative interviews with 20 adult international adoptees of colour and eight adoptive parents with internationally adopted children in Sweden regarding their experiences of racialization, ethnic identifications and coping strategies. The findings suggest that the non-white bodies of the adoptees are constantly made significant in their everyday lives in interactions with the white Swedish majority population, whether expressed as 'curious questions' concerning the ethnic origin of the adoptees or as outright aggressive racialization. The study argues that race has to be taken into consideration by Swedish adoption research and the Swedish adoption community, to be able to fully grasp the high preponderance of psychic ill health among adult adoptees as found by quantitative adoption research.

Avdelning/ar

  • Socialhögskolan

Publiceringsår

2010

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

489-509

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Social Work

Volym

53

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Social Work

Nyckelord

  • racialization
  • adoption
  • race
  • Sweden

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1461-7234