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In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian international adoption to flourish. In Global Families, Catherine Ceniza Choy unearths the little-known historical origins of Asian international adoption in the United States. Beginning with the post-World War II presence of the U.S. military in Asia, she reveals how mixed-race children born of Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese women and U.S. servicemen comprised one of the earliest groups of adoptive children. Based on extensive archival research, Global Families moves beyond one-dimensional portrayals of Asian international adoption as either a progressive form of U.S. multiculturalism or as an exploitative form of cultural and economic imperialism. Rather, Choy acknowledges the complexity of the phenomenon, illuminating both its radical possibilities of a world united across national, cultural, and racial divides through family formation and its strong potential for reinforcing the very racial and cultural hierarchies it sought to challenge.

Asian Americans. --- Adoption --- Adopted children --- Intercountry adoption --- Asian Americans --- Asians --- Ethnology --- Adopted infants --- Children, Adopted --- Children --- International adoption --- Transnational adoption --- Interracial adoption

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As the inaugural volume of the new Brill book series Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race , this anthology presents an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology features twenty-one chapters by new and established scholars and writers. They collectively examine the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture. This is an ideal volume to introduce advanced undergraduate and graduate students to trans-Pacific Studies and gender as a category of analysis.

Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Social conditions. --- East Asia. --- Pacific Area. --- Ostasien --- Pazifischer Raum --- Südostasien --- USA --- Westliche Vereinigte Staaten --- Asien --- Südostasiaten --- Ferner Osten --- Asiatisch-Pazifischer Raum --- Pazifik --- Pazifische Länder --- Pazifik-Staaten --- Pazifischer Ozean --- Zirkumpazifischer Raum --- Asia-Pacific Region --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Asian-Pacific Region --- Pacific Ocean Region --- Pacific Region --- Pacific Rim --- East --- Eastern Asia --- Far East --- Asia --- Weststaaten