WGSS 29904. POLITICS OF TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION This course aims to broaden the way students view societies on a global scale by focusing on exchanges between the United States and East Asia, especially South Korea and China. Transnational adoption from the global south to the global north shows how hierarchies of race, class, gender, disability, sexuality, and nation circulate via the movement of children across societal, cultural, and national boundaries. Through in-depth research on transnational adoption from sending countries in East Asia to receiving countries such as the United States, students will examine and deconstruct power dynamics as they operate worldwide. In addition, students will explore the complicated relations between East Asia and the United States in order to critique social issues across borders. Finally, this course facilitates students understanding of local issues from a global perspective and global issues from a local perspective by employing intersectional and transnational femin
- Enseignant: Sina Lee