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082 0 4 _a362.7340971/0904
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBalcom, Karen
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Traffic in Babies :
_bCross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972 /
_cKaren Balcom.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[2011]
264 4 _c©2011
300 _a1 online resource (448 p.)
336 _atext
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490 0 _aStudies in Gender and History
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface and Acknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: Babies across Borders --
_t1. Charlotte Whitton and Border Crossings in the 1930s --
_t2. Border-Crossing Responses to the Ideal Maternity Home, 1945–1947 --
_t3. The Alberta Babies-for-Export Scandal, 1947–1949 --
_t4. Cross-Border Placements for Catholic Children from Quebec, 1945–1960 --
_t5. Criminal Law and Baby Black Markets, 1954–1964 --
_t6. Promoting and Controlling Cross-Border Adoption, 1950–1972 --
_tConclusion: ‘A “No Man’s Land” of Jurisdiction --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aBetween 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States. At times, adopting across the border was a strategy used to deliberately avoid professional oversight and take advantage of varying levels of regulation across states and provinces. The Traffic in Babies traces the efforts of Canadian and American child welfare leaders—with intermittent support from immigration officials, politicians, police, and criminal prosecutors—to build bridges between disconnected jurisdictions and control the flow of babies across the Canada-U.S. border.Karen A. Balcom details the dramatic and sometimes tragic history of cross-border adoptions—from the Ideal Maternity Home case and the Alberta Babies-for-Export scandal to trans-racial adoptions of Aboriginal children. Exploring how and why babies were moved across borders, The Traffic in Babies is a fascinating look at how social workers and other policy makers tried to find the birth mothers, adopted children, and adoptive parents who disappeared into the spaces between child welfare and immigration laws in Canada and the United States.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2023)
650 4 _aDISCOUNT-B.
650 7 _aFAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.3138/9781442621145
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442621145
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