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Babies Without Borders: Adoption and Migration Across the Americas by Karen Dubinsky
New Book Shelf HV875.58.A45 D83 2010

While international adoptions have risen in the public eye adoptions between North America and Latin America have been overshadowed and, in some cases, forgotten.
This book looks at three areas of the western hemisphere—Canada, Cuba, and Guatemala—and includes adoption history from the 1960s and 1970s.

The author Karen Dubinsky expands the historical record while she considers the political symbolism of children caught up in adoption and migration controversies in Canada, the United States, Cuba, and Guatemala.

Dubinsky, an historian and adoptive mother (Guatemala) writes critically about the institution of international adoptions. Integrating the personal with the scholarly, Babies without Borders exposes what happens when children bear the weight of adult political conflicts.

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