ISBN:
9781487500641
,
9781487520458
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 328 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Studies in gender and history 51
Series Statement:
Studies in gender and history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
362.73408997071
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Indianer
;
Indigenes Volk
;
Métis
;
Kind
;
Kindeswohl
;
Interethnische Adoption
;
Nordamerika
;
Canada / Indian Act
;
Interracial adoption / Canada
;
Child welfare / Canada
;
Native children / Canada / Social conditions
;
Native peoples / Kinship / Canada
;
Native peoples / Relocation / Canada
;
Native peoples / Canada / Government relations
;
Indian Act (Canada)
;
Child welfare
;
Interracial adoption
;
Canada
;
Nordamerika
;
Indianer
;
Métis
;
Indigenes Volk
;
Kind
;
Interethnische Adoption
;
Kindeswohl
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"Privileging Indigenous voices and experiences, Intimate Integration documents the rise and fall of North American transracial adoption projects, including the Adopt Indian and Métis Project and the Indian Adoption Project. The author argues that the integration of adopted Indian and Métis children mirrored the new direction in post-war Indian policy and welfare services. She illustrates how the removal of Indigenous children from Indigenous families and communities took on increasing political and social urgency, contributing to what we now call the "Sixties Scoop." Intimate Integration utilizes an Indigenous gender analysis to identify the gendered operation of the federal Indian Act and its contribution to Indigenous child removal, over-representation in provincial child welfare systems, and transracial adoption. Specifically, women and children’s involuntary enfranchisement through marriage, as laid out in the Indian Act, undermined Indigenous gender and kinship relationships. Making profound contributions to the history of settler-colonialism in Canada, Intimate Integration sheds light on the complex reasons behind persistent social inequalities in child welfare."--
Description / Table of Contents:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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