Outsourced Children - Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China - Grand Format

Thousands of Chinese children have been adopted by American parents and many Western aid organizations invest in helping orphans in China-but why does China allow this exchange, and what does it reveal about globalization ? Outsourced Children answers these questions by examining life in nine Chinese orphanages that were assisted by international humanitarian groups. Author Leslie Wang explains how these transnational partnerships place marginalized children at the intersection of public and private spheres, state and civil society, and local and global agendas.
Although Western societies view childhood as innocent, and unaffected by politics, children both symbolize and influence national futures.