From the perspective of discursive psychology, this thesis enquires into the social aspects of adoption, specifically, into the discourses that construct the phenomenon in Spain, in order to understand and analyze their effects on the ways in which adoptive families and adoptees negotiate the meaning of adoption in their life trajectories and their identities. It also aims to understand and deconstruct the power (and oppression) relations that these discourses (re)produce. Its methodology combines participant observation with interviews and life stories of four transracial adoptees, which were used as cases study to investigate how adoptees, upon reaching adulthood, articulate with discourses of difference and belonging._x000D_ The results reveal how adoption discourses are pervaded by the frontiers between adulthood and childhood, between adoptive (normative and “appropriate” families and birth (in default or "inappropriate") families, and the frontier around the axes of race, ethnicity and culture in transracial adoptions.
Discursos de la adopción en España: construcción de sujetos y asimetrías de poder
San Román Sobrino, B. (Author). 23 Apr 2013
Student thesis: Doctoral thesis
Student thesis: Doctoral thesis