Constructing Transnational and Transracial Identity

Sigalit Ben-Zion

ISBN 10: 1137480645 / ISBN 13: 9781137480644

Published by SPRINGER NATURE Nov 2014, 2014

About this Item

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersection of ethnicity, family, and national lines. 265 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Constructing Transnational and Transracial Identity
• Publisher: SPRINGER NATURE Nov 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137480645
• ISBN 13: 9781137480644
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 152H x 20D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 517 grams

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Synopsis

Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersection of ethnicity, family, and national lines.

About the Author

Sigalit Ben-Zion is an independent scholar based in Israel. She is the author of A Roadmap to the Heavens: An Anthropological Study of Hegemony among Priests, Sages, and Laymen (2008).