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Transnational adoption was once a rarity in the United States, but Americans have been choosing to adopt children from abroad with increasing frequency since the mid-twentieth century. Korean adoptees make up the largest share of international adoptions- 25 percent of all children adopted from outside the United States -but they remain understudied among Asian American groups. What kind of identities do adoptees develop as members of American families and in a cultural climate that often views them as foreigners?

Korean Americans. --- Adoptees --- Intercountry adoption --- Interracial adoption --- International adoption --- Transnational adoption --- Adoption --- Korean Americans --- Ethnology --- Koreans --- Adopted persons --- Adult adoptees --- Mixed race adoption --- Trans-racial adoption --- Race relations --- Transracial adoption