4-0050 KINSHIP TOURISM: FERTILITY, ADOPTION AND "VISITING" FAMILY

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Friday, November 18, 2011: 08:00-09:45

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Amy Speier (Eckerd College) and Frayda Cohen (University of Pittsburgh)

Chairs: Amy Speier (Eckerd College)

Discussants: Yasmine Ergas (Columbia University)

08:00

Tracing the Red Thread: Chinese-US Transnational Adoption and the Legacies of “Home”

Frayda Cohen (University of Pittsburgh)

08:15

Czech Hosts Creating “A Real Home Away From Home” for North American Reproductive Tourists

Amy Speier (Eckerd College)

08:30

"Maternity Tourism" and the Politics of Cross-Border Reproduction

Susan Frohlick (Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Manitoba)

08:45

The Supply-Side of Adoption: Relinquishment and Adoption From the Perspective of Unmarried Mothers In South India

Pien Bos (Radboud University Nijmegen) and Fenneke Reysoo (Graduate Institute IHEID)

09:00

The Subsidiarity Principle In Intercountry Adoption: Ethnographic Notes From Kazakhstan

Jen Pylypa (Carleton University)

09:15

Discussant

Yasmine Ergas (Columbia University)

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