Abstract

MARTINEZ CHICON, Raquel  and  MURIEDAS DIEZ, Estefanía. Alterity, Ethnicity and Racism in the Search for the Origins of Adopted People. The Spanish Case. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2019, n.70, pp.115-127. ISSN 0123-885X.  https://doi.org/10.7440/res70.2019.10.

In Spain, the search for the origins of adopted people, driven by the need to communicate the prior history of minors coming mainly from China, Russia, Ethiopia and Vietnam, moves between the biological and the cultural. International adoptions introduce a rethinking of the notions of origin and identity and incorporate those of ethnicity and race into the context of adoption. In this article, through the critical discourse analysis of an ethnographic paper, we highlight the importance of rethinking what is being understood as “origins”, both institutionally as well as academically, and what are the consequences -both theoretically as well as methodologically and practically- of this conceptualization in the construction of otherness and difference in adopted people, based on their provenance.

Keywords : Adoption; cultural differentiation; ethnic discrimination; identity; search for origins..

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