Voices of the lost children of Greece

• Titel: Voices of the lost children of Greece
• Titelzusatz: oral histories of cold war international adoption
• Mitwirkende: Cardaras, Mary [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Mary Cardaras
• Verlagsort: London
• Verlag: Anthem Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: xvi, 192 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Porträts
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-804-2
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-370-2
• Schlagwörter: (g)Griechenland / (s)Kind / (s)Adoption / (s)Ausland / (z)Geschichte 1948-1968
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Voices of the Lost Children of Greece. - London : Anthem Press, 2023. - 1 online resource (182 pages)
• Sach-SW: Altersgruppen: Kinder
• Sach-SW: Entwicklungspsychologie
• Sach-SW: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption
• Sach-SW: PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child
• Sach-SW: Ratgeber: Adoption und Pflegekinder
• Sach-SW: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
• Sach-SW: Sociology: family & relationships
• Sach-SW: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• K10plus-PPN: 1831198355

Abstract

"Voices of the Lost Children of Greece is a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees in the 1950's after two consecutive wars, which ravaged the country. Never before has this group of adoptees come together to write their stories and share their closely held feelings. While many of the adoptees have similar experiences and while they may share some common thoughts about their adoptions, their stories are vastly different, some harrowing, others remarkable. The collection will illustrate the impact of adoption itself over years, no matter if children were displaced from their parents and country as infants or as youngsters. The book will shed light on adoption from many disciplinary angles, including sociological, psychological and anthropological. It will also put these adoptions into a larger historical context. The book is further enhanced by Greek-born adoptee, academic, poet and writer, Dr. Andrew Mossin, who writes the Forward, by Dr. Gonda Van Steen, a preeminent modern Greek scholar, who pens the first chapter about the history of such adoptions, and in the final chapter, by Dr. Eirini Papadaki, who has written extensively about the women of Greece and adoption, to bring readers a current assessment of adoption practices in Greece today"--