CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Stewart, Lily Zhen-Ling |
|---|---|
| Title | Internally Displaced: Transnationally Adopted Asian Women in the United States |
| Summary | This research examines the theoretical and political considerations of transnationally adopted Asian women’s subjectivities situated within a contemporary U.S. context. Utilizing oral history, I discuss how adopted women’s histories of loss, in addition to lost histories, are constructed through processes of immigration, racialization, and assimilation across the public domain and the private realm of family and intimacy. I deploy David Eng and Shinhee Han’s theoretical framework of racial melancholia to explicate the psycho-social disposition of transnationally adopted Asian women through a de-pathologized politics of loss to contend with the dominant moralizing discourse of Asian transnational adoption. This research explores the historical emergence of this gendered pattern of Asian migration through the narrative accounts of adopted Asian women who once migrated to the United States as baby girls. Engaging with salience of adopted Asian baby girls and desire for Asian women within dominant culture, this work explores the meaning making process of race, gender, and sexuality for transnationally adopted Asian women through the socio-historical conditions of loss against the present U.S. “post-racial” moment. |
| Supervisor | Nadia Jones-Gailani and Adriana Qubaiova |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/stewart_lily.pdf |
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