ABSTRACT
Chapter three considers the centrality of race and sovereignty in both understanding adoption and foster care and the relationship that transnational adoption and adoption of Indigenous children have in the establishment and justification of the state in a U.S. context.
Building on Chapter 2, this chapter considers how the project of empire in the United States and connected wars and military projects have impacted adoption practices, including the examples of the Korean War and the presence of Korean adoptees in the United States, connections between the Korean Adoption Project and the Indian Adoption Project and how these projects have impacted.
U.S. and Korean domestic policies and adoption policies. These two adoption projects are one of many examples demonstrating the far-reaching effects of U.S. imperialism. Additionally, the connections of these projects highlight something often not recognized within the United States—that because of Indigenous sovereignty, any adoption of an Indigenous child outside of their nation is, much like the adoption of Korean children into other nations, a transnational adoption.
