Adoption Memory And Cold War Greece
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Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece
Author: Gonda Van Steen
language: en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date: 2021-07-12
Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period
Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece
Author: Gonda Van Steen
language: en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date: 2019-11-21
This book presents a committed quest to unravel and document the postwar adoption networks that placed more than 3,000 Greek children in the United States, in a movement accelerated by the aftermath of the Greek Civil War and by the new conditions of the global Cold War. Greek-to-American adoptions and, regrettably, also their transactions and transgressions, provided the blueprint for the first large-scale international adoptions, well before these became a mass phenomenon typically associated with Asian children. The story of these Greek postwar and Cold War adoptions, whose procedures ranged from legal to highly irregular, has never been told or analyzed before. Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece answers the important questions: How did these adoptions from Greece happen? Was there any money involved? Humanitarian rescue or kid pro quo? Or both? With sympathy and perseverance, Gonda Van Steen has filled a decades-long gap in our understanding, and provided essential information to the hundreds of adoptees and their descendants whose lives are still affected today.
Ripped at the Root
In the midst of the Cold War, these children-many the sons and daughters of Greek leftists-became pawns in the global battle for democracy. In this powerful, un-put-downable narrative, Cardaras gives voice not only to Greek adoptees, but to international adoptees everywhere as they navigate returns to their birthplaces; their birth relatives; and reclaim their stolen origin stories.