Chinese refugee children and empires: the politics of international adoptions in cold war Hong Kong

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Chinese refugee children and empires: the politics of international adoptions in cold war Hong Kong

With the support of new sources from British and Hong Kong archives, this study casts new light on the post-war international adoptions of Chinese refugee children in the British colony of Hong Kong. It argues that while children were ‘saved’ and found families overseas, they were also used as pawns...

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Main Author:	Franco, Rosaria
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis 2018
Subjects:	International adoptions; refugee children; Chinese refugees; Hong Kong; British empire; United States; cold war; immigration; decolonization; 1950s; 1960s
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52623/

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