Adoption Emotion and Identity

<p> Exploring adoption in the Pacific this book goes beyond the commonplace structural-functional analysis of adoption as a positive transaction in parenthood. It examines the effects it has on adoptees' inner sense of self their conflicted emotional lives and familial relationships that are affected by a personal sense of rejection and not belonging. This account is theoretically rooted in ethnopsychology based on field work conducted across multiple research sites in the Chuuk Lagoon its neighboring Chuukic-speaking atolls and persons from neighboring Micronesian island communities.</p>