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Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid Pro Quo?

Contributor(s): Van Steen, Gonda (Author)

ISBN: 9780472038817

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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Pub Date: July 12, 2021

Dewey: 362.73408989

Lexile Code: 0000

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.87" H x 8.90" L x 5.91" W ( 1.00 lbs) 350 pages

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Description: Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period

Review Quotes: "Drawing on the fields of memory studies, cultural anthropology, Greek history, and international adoption history, Van Steen explores how Cold War anticommunism in post-World War II Greece drove the foreign adoption of Greek children, mainly to the U.S., shedding light on the important role that Greece played in U.S. adoption history. The book provides an important corrective lens, including statistics that prove how desirable Greek orphans were to U.S. families in the decades after World War II."
--Rachel Rains Winslow, Westmont College

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