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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Balcom, Karen Andrea, 1965-     Subjects     Intercountry adoption -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.     Intercountry adoption -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Intercountry adoption -- Canada -- Case studies.     Intercountry adoption -- Corrupt practices -- Canada.     Intercountry adoption -- Law and legislation -- Canada.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Balcom, Karen Andrea, 1965-       by title:      The traffic in babie...       by call number:      362.734 B174t     Search the Web     Balcom, Karen Andrea, 1965-     Intercountry adoption -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.     Intercountry adoption -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Intercountry adoption -- Canada -- Case studies.     Intercountry adoption -- Corrupt practices -- Canada.     Intercountry adoption -- Law and legislation -- Canada.       MARC Display

The traffic in babies : cross-border adoption and baby-selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972 / Karen A. Balcom. by Balcom, Karen Andrea, 1965- University of Toronto Press, c2011. Call #: 362.734 B174t Subjects Intercountry adoption -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.   Intercountry adoption -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Intercountry adoption -- Canada -- Case studies.   Intercountry adoption -- Corrupt practices -- Canada.   Intercountry adoption -- Law and legislation -- Canada. Series Studies in gender and history ISBN:  9780802099181 (bound) 0802099181 (bound) 9780802096135 (pbk.) 0802096131 (pbk.) Description:  xii, 356 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Introduction: Babies Across Borders -- Charlotte Whitton and Border-Crossings in the 1930s -- Border-Crossing Responses to the Ideal Maternity Home, 1945-1947 -- The Alberta Babies-for-Export Scandal, 1947-1949 -- Cross-Border Placements for Catholic Children From Quebec, 1945-1960 -- Criminal Law and Baby Black Markets, 1954-1964 -- Controlling Cross Border Adoption, 1950-1972 -- Conclusion: A "No Man's Land" of Jurisdiction Summary:  "Between 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. The Traffic in Babies 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. Karen 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, The Traffic in Babies 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."--pub. desc. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Local History Collection 362.734 B174t Non-circulating Local History Room - Central Library, 4th Floor Add Copy to MyList

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