Abstract
The safeguards and measures to prevent child trafficking mentioned in the 1993 Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption have proven insufficient in curbing the so-called irregular adoptions. An analysis of how Spanish central authorities and intermediary agencies managed the flow of adoption dossiers between 2003 and 2013 presents their inability to react swiftly to the imbalance between adoption demand and supply. The 2015 reforms in the Spanish law introduced measures to bring demand in line with real needs. However, imaginaries that portray adopters and children from the Global South as victims of meaningless bureaucracy continue to hold true even today.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 492-508 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Childhood |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2021 |
Keywords
- accredited bodies
- acquisitive familism
- child protection
- intercountry adoption
- Transnational adoption
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