TY - BOOK ID - 138047828 TI - Families we need : disability, abandonment, and foster care's resistance in contemporary China PY - 2023 SN - 1978829329 PB - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Children with disabilities KW - Families KW - Foster children KW - Chinese immigrants, Chinese families, Chinese family dynamics, disability, abandonment, foster care, Chinese foster care, Guangxi residence, child abuse, child abandonment, child abuse prevention, abuse prevention, social vulnerability, ethnography, Nanning, Chinese foster families, foster families across the world, orphans, Chinese orphans, child abuse victims, family therapy, therapy, family therapy tactics, Chinese ethnography, ethnographic perspectives, financial aid, welfare, Chinese welfare, orphanages, history of orphanages, disability benefits, disability medicine, disability studies, disability welfare. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138047828 AB - "Set in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need traces the movement of three Chinese foster children, Dengrong, Pei Pei, and Meili, from the state orphanage into the humble, foster homes of Auntie Li, Auntie Ma, and Auntie Huang. Traversing the geography of Guangxi, from the modern capital Nanning where Pei Pei and Meili reside, to the small farming village several hours away where Dengrong is placed, this ethnography details the hardships of social abandonment for disabled children and disenfranchised, older women in China, while also analyzing the state's efforts to cope with such marginal populations and incorporate them into China's modern future. The book argues that Chinese foster families perform necessary, invisible service to the Chinese state and intercountry adoption, yet the bonds they form also resist such forces, exposing the inequalities, privilege, and ableism at the heart of global family making"-- ER -