Reproductive Justice Adoption and Foster Care

<p>Understanding practices of family separation and child removal necessitates considering the impacts of globalizing capitalism colonialism empire building and the establishment and normalization of systemic racism.</p><p>In <i>Reproductive Justice Adoption and Foster Care</i> the authors situate the colonial legacies of family separation what it means to center the right parent and Reproductive Justice and transnational feminist frameworks in conversation with one another in order to elucidate a more nuanced and comprehensive approach to recognizing the significance of contemporary examples of family separation. In doing so the book showcases the connections between adoption and foster care within the intellectual and activist frameworks of human rights Critical Adoption Studies Reproductive Justice and transnational feminisms. Epistemologically Reproductive Justice and transnational feminisms meet at the point where both consider and interrogate globalizing capitalism neoliberal economic and political ideologies and the ways that various people—mostly people of color poor people women children and Indigenous people—are considered disposable. Critical Adoption Studies also importantly highlights the ways that adoption and foster care function as forms of family formation and as mechanisms of globalizing capitalism and state formation. Thus it is critical that any exploration of the reproductive experiences of marginalized individuals interrogate and complicate notions of “choice” to advocate for justice.</p><p><em>Reproductive Justice Adoption and Foster Care </em>will be of interest to students of sociology psychology and social work as well as scholars activists policymakers and adoption and foster care practitioners.</p>