ABSTRACT

This interlude highlights the academic and intellectual work of Kimberly D. McKee, an adult adoptee scholar of transnational adoption who has published two books and many articles and book chapters about transnational adoption from Asia, often focusing on Korea. In this conversation, the authors discuss transnational Korean adoption, shifts in Critical Adoption Studies in the last 20 years, the ways that capitalist markets impact reunion between transnational transracial Korean adoptees and their Korean families, and the social conditions that result in children being adopted.