{"product_id":"the-traffic-in-babies-cross-border-adoption-and-baby-selling-between-the-united-states-and-canada-1930-1972-paperback-softback-9780802096135","title":"The Traffic in Babies; Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling Between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780802096135","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Traffic in Babies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling Between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKaren A. Balcom (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780802096135\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 August 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e448 pages, 20 b\u0026amp;w illustrations, 3 b\u0026amp;w tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Karen A. Balcom\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eThe Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972\u003c\/em\u003e is a model of scholarship in transnational policy history. Professor Balcom deals with an important, but largely neglected, aspect of Canadian-American relations – the movement of babies across national borders through transnational adoptions. This book makes an outstanding contribution to policy history because it examines the interactions of public and private agencies in placing children in adoptive homes, as well as policymaking and implementation at the federal, state and provincial levels on both sides of the border It also makes important contributions to women\u0026amp;#x2019;s history and the history of social welfare, since women in both the U.S. and Canada led the efforts to regulate and rationalize the international movement of adopted children … In sum, \u003cem\u003eThe Traffic in Babies \u003c\/em\u003eis an outstanding book.' \u003cbr\u003e - Citation for First Bowling Green Prize in Comparative and International Policy History ‘A groundbreaking historical study of the movement of children across borders. While studies of adoption, both domestic and international, have proliferated in recent decades, none goes as far as this one in documenting the process.’ - Judith Modell Schater (The American Historical Review; vol 117:03:2012) ‘Magnificent study of Canada-US adoption… \u003cem\u003eThe Traffic in Babies\u003c\/em\u003e is a model of transnational scholarship and a major contribution to the study of Canada-US relations.’ - Molly Ladd-Taylor (Canadian Historical Review, vol 93:04:2012)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 1930 and the mid-1970s, several thousand Canadian-born children were adopted by families in the United States. At times, adopting across the border was a strategy used to deliberately avoid professional oversight and take advantage of varying levels of regulation across states and provinces. \u003cem\u003eThe Traffic in Babies\u003c\/em\u003e traces the efforts of Canadian and American child welfare leaders—with intermittent support from immigration officials, politicians, police, and criminal prosecutors—to build bridges between disconnected jurisdictions and control the flow of babies across the Canada-U.S. border.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKaren A. Balcom details the dramatic and sometimes tragic history of cross-border adoptions—from the Ideal Maternity Home case and the Alberta Babies-for-Export scandal to trans-racial adoptions of Aboriginal children. Exploring how and why babies were moved across borders, \u003cem\u003eThe Traffic in Babies\u003c\/em\u003e is a fascinating look at how social workers and other policy makers tried to find the birth mothers, adopted children, and adoptive parents who disappeared into the spaces between child welfare and immigration laws in Canada and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Babies Across Borders \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003col\u003e \u003cli\u003eCharlotte Whitton and Border-Crossings in the 1930s\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBorder-Crossing Responses to the Ideal Maternity Home, 1945-1947\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Alberta Babies-for-Export Scandal, 1947-1949\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCross-Border Placements for Catholic Children From Quebec, 1945-1960\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCriminal Law and Baby Black Markets, 1954-1964\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eControlling Cross Border Adoption, 1950-1972 \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: A \"No Man's Land\" of Jurisdiction \u003c\/p\u003e  Bibliography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702183489816,"sku":"9780802096135","price":27.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-traffic-in-babies-cross-border-adoption-and-baby-selling-between-the-united-states-and-canada-1930-1972-paperback-softback-9780802096135","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}