On the difficulty of thinking about identity construction without fixed anchors: Transnational adoption in Spain

Beatriz San Román

On the difficulty of thinking about identity construction without fixed anchors: Transnational adoption in Spain

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Abstract

© Scripta Nova, 2015 and Beatriz San Román, 2015. Drawing on ethnographic research, this text analyses the role of "origins" in the way Spanish adoptive families, guided by the "expert knowledge" of those practitioners who are entrusted their training and support, construct the identity of transnational adoptees. This analysis reveals the difficulty discarding the traditional, dichotomous, and racialised categories that link identity to a territory, making it difficult to emerge for alternative narratives that give meaning and coherence to the life stories of those who, as transnationally adopted people, do not fit into those patterns.

Original language	English
Article number	510-5
Journal	Scripta Nova
Volume	19
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015

Keywords

Expert knowledge
Identity
Late modernity
Nomadism
Transnational adoption

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