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| Jesús Palacios | Claudia Pedone | Josep Anton Rodriguez Collado | Beatriz San Román Sobrino |
| Judith Schachter (Modell) | Peter Selman | Elisabet Vendrell i Aubach | Muriel Villanueva i Perarnau |
| Toby Volkman | Barbara Yngvesson |
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Domingos Abreu Universidade Federal Do Ceará, Brasil He is Professor of the Master and PhD Program of Universidade Federal do Ceará – (UFC-Brasil) and Researcher at PRONEX (Programa Nacional de Excelencia) of the CNPQ (Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico). During 2004 - 2005 he teachs and did research at University of Virginia (EU) and University of Lumière – Lyon ( France ). He is author of books and papers about childhood, adoption and international adoption: Baby-Carrying Storks: An Analyses of Brazilian Intermediaries in the Adoption Process; “Adoções no Brasil: Entre o ilegal e o socialmente aceito; Récits et représentations d'adotion international: les logiques du don et de la dette; No bico da cegonha. Histórias de adoção e da adoção internacional no Brasil. |
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Salomé Adroher Biosca |
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Carles Benet i Domingo He is Psychologist and Family Therapist. Responsible for the coordination of the Catalan Instituciones Coordinadoras de Integración Familiar (ICIF) of International Adoption and member of the Technical Commission of the Postadoptive Attention Service of the Catalonian Institute of Fostering and Adoption, which is part of the Generalitat de Catalunya's Department of Welfare and Family. For over 18 years, he has worked in different spheres related to children protection within the Catalan administration. |
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Ana Berástegui She is Doctor in Psychology (Universidad Pontificia Comillas-Madrid). Currently she is technical secretary at the University Family Institute of the University. The main focus of her research has been risk childhood, focusing on international adoption and questions related to psychosocial, family-related, racial and cultural adoption of children and their families. She is a teacher of the Master of Family Assessment and Mediation of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas and collaborates training families in the processes of pre and post adoption with the postadoptist support centre ADOPANTIS.
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Berta Boadas Mir She has a degree in Social Work and Pedagogy. She is responsible of the Adoption Group of Blanquerna Assistencial y de Serveis Foundation and member of its ICIF. She develops tasks of formation and evaluation of international prospective adoptive parents. She teaches at the Social Work Diplomat (actually University Ramón Llull) from 1987. She is a teacher and courses' coordinator on international adoption for university students and professionals as well as for Catalan civil and social servants. She has worked twelve years in Cáritas Barcelona. She has been member of diverse Catalan Public Administration Committees related to childhood, families and social welfare. She is co author of the research report “Estudio sobre la demanda de los servicios SAF (Servicio de Atención Familiar)” asked for the Catalan Secretary of Families of the Wellbeing and Families (2004). |
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Laura Briggs Department of Women Studies, University of Arizona, USA She is PhD in American Civilization, Brown University, and Associate Professor in Women's Studies and Anthropology, University of Arizona. Her areas of specialization are Sexuality and Reproduction, Studies of Race and Colonialism, 19th and 20th Century U.S. Women's History and Cultural Studies of Science. Her most recent articles and chapters are “Adopción transnacional: robo de criaturas, familias homoparentales y neoliberalism,” trans. Gloria Elena Bernal, Debate Feminista (forthcoming), “Orphaning the Children of Welfare: “Crack Babies,' Race, and Adoption Reform,” in Jane Jeong Trenka, Chinyere Oparah, and Sun Yung Shin, eds. Outsiders Within: Racial Crossings and Adoption Politics (South End Press, forthcoming) and “Making ‘American' Families: Transnational Adoption and U.S. Latin America Policy,” in Ann Stoler, ed. Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (Duke, 2006). |
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Anne Cadoret Centre de la Recherche Scientifique, Groupe d'Analyse Du Social et de la Sociabilité -CNRS-GRASS, Paris She is a Social Anthropologist. She studies new family configurations, specifically fostered families, homosexual families and families included in a very specific adoption called "simple adoption". She has published Parenté Plurielle. Anthropologie du placement familial (Paris, L'Harmattan, 1995) y Padres como los demás. Parentesco y homosexualidad (Barcelona, Gedisa, 2003), "Chronique familial andalouse et histories de femmes" (L'Homme, nº 150, 1999), "Placement d'enfants et appartenance familiale: una pluriparentalité nécessaire" (en D. Le Gall et Y Tettahar, (sld), La pluriparentalité, Paris, PUF, 2001) and "Constructions y "Constructions familiales et engagement" (en F.R. Oullette, R.Hutubise, R. Joyal (sld), Familles en transformation: quels enjeux éthiques?, Québec, PUL/IQRC, 2005). |
Lisa Cartwright She is professor of Communication at the University of California at San Diego, where she is also on the faculty of the programs in science studies and critical gender studies. She is also Visiting Professor, School of Art & Design History, Kingston University, England and recently held the Marie-Jahoda Visiting Professorship in Gender Studies at Ruhr University, Germany. She is the author of Moral Spectatorship and Images of Waiting Children (both forthcoming from Duke University Press) and Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1995) and co-author with Marita Sturken of Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Oxford 2001). |
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Chantal Collard She is Social Anthropologist. One of her research interest is focused on international adoption from the point of view of sending countries for what she has carried fieldwork in Haiti five times. Another aspect of her research is international adoption from the perspective of the receiving countries. How countries like Québec legislate about intrafamiliar adoption, immigrant communities, adoption of homosexual parents or origins of children? For these topics, she works with the anthropologist Ouellette and two lawyers. Collard is part on current debates of the field of kinship in the Western world including surrogacy and embryo adoption in collaboration with research partners in France. |
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Anne-Marie Crine Membre du Comité Consultatif du Délégué de la Communauté Française aux Droits de l'Enfant DGDE, Brussels, Belgium She is graduated in Social and Clinic Psychology (Univ. of Liege and Louvain- Belgium) and has a D.E.S. on psychotherapy of children and teenagers (Univ. of Louvain - Belgium). She is Counsellor of the Ministry responsible of child protection and on central authority on adoption at the French speaking Community (Brussels, Belgium) and Counsellor of international organisms (Unicef, International Social Service) on child protection and adoption. She is also teacher at COPES, training centre about psychological and social problems on childhood. (Paris, France). |
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Monica Dalen She is Professor in the Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo, Norway. Her research focuses primarily on international adoption, with a special interest in language development, academic performance and ethnic identity among adoptees from China, Colombia, India, Korea, and Vietnam. She has published widely on adoption in books, book chapters, and peer-reviewed journal articles. |
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Claudia Fonseca
Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul She is professor of the Master and the PhD Program in Social Anthropology at the Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Her research interested are Legal Anthropology, Family Organization and Gender relations between popular Groups in Brazil, focus in Human Rights and international adoption. Among her recent works are: Caminhos de Adoçao (Sao Paulo, 2002), several papers published in Social Text, Cahiers du Genre, Law & Society Review, Law and Policy Journal, Adoption and Fostering Journal and chapters about adoption in Bowie. F., ed., Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption (Routledge, 2004) and Volkman, T., ed., Cultures of Transnacional adoption (Duke University Press 2005). |
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Vicky Fumadó MD in Medicine (Pediatry), with an especialization in international adoptees. |
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Jolanda Galli Psicóloga y psicoterapeuta She is graduated in Psychology at the School of Humanities and Sciences of Montevideo, Uruguay and PhD in Psychology at Padova University, Italy. She is Consultant of Italian Central Authority (CAI) for International Adoption, and in different European and Latin-American countries, like Catalonia where she was training professionals and techniques specialized in prospective adoptive parents. Trainer and supervisor of Public Services Staff specialized in adoption in Italy, Switzerland and Uruguay, she has directed research projects on adoption and she is the author of publications about this subject like Fallimenti adottivi (2002), I percorsi dell'adozione (2005); Un viaggio chiamato affido (2006). |
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Lourdes Garcia Tugas Entidad Colaboradora de Adopción Internacional -ECAI- GENUS, Cataluña She is Clinic Psychologist specialized in international adoption. Coordinator of the Entidad Colaboradora de Adopción Internacional “Genus” de Cataluña. |
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Martine Gross Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre d'Études Interdisciplinaires des Faits Religieux -CNRS- EHESS- CEIFR, Paris She is Research Engineer in Social Sciences. Research tasks in progress: Inquire “homoparentalities” 2005, transmission of religious values and identities in homofamilies, “Homosexualities and Jewishs”, “Christian/born gays, lesbians and bisexuals”. “Biparental and multiparental lesbian and gay families in France”, Lesbian and Gay Psychology Review , vol. 7 n°1, 2006; «Désir d'enfant chez les gays et les lesbiennes», Terrain , n° 46, 2006; (editors) «Homoparentalité, état des lieux, nouvelle édition revue et augmentée», Eres , 2005; Gross, M., Peyceré, M., «Fonder une famille homoparentale», Ramsay , 2005; Cadoret, A., Gross, M., Mecary, C., Perreau, B. (editors) «Homoparentalités, approches scientifiques et politiques», Actes de la 3ème conférence internationale sur l'homoparentalité , PUF, 2006. |
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Diana Guerra Díaz Asociación de Ayuda a la Fertilidad GENERA She is PhD in Clinical Psychology. Psychology at diverse Assisted Reproduction centres. She is member of the Catalan and Spanish Commissions on Human Assisted Reproduction. |
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Florencia Herrera Oesterheld She is PhD in Social Anthropology (Universitat of Barcelona). Her interest area are lesbian families, focus on the Chile case, where she usually does research. |
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Signe Howell Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway She is Social Anthropologist. She has been undertaking research on transnational adoption in Norway and as a global phenomenon since 1999, and has published widely on the topic, including The Kinning of Foreigners: Transnational adoption in a global perspectives " (Berghahn, 2006). Her previous research has been on religion, ritual and kinship in Malaysia and Indonesia. |
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Elixabete Imaz
Departamento de Filosofía de los Valores y Antropología Social, Universidad del País Vasco She is BSc in Sociology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is at the end of her dissertation about maternity of Basque contemporary women. Her main areas of interest are gender, family constitution and maternity. Among her recent works are “La maternidad en el seno de las parejas lesbianas: cambios, continuidades y rupturas respecto a los modelos familiares y maternales” (in Arxius des Ciències Socials , Special Issue, (in edition) and “Estrategias familiares y elección reproductiva: notas acerca de la maternidad en parejas lesbianas” (in Ankulegi. Revista de Antropología Social , 7, pp. 69-78, 2003). |
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Elizabeth Ana Kay Stewart Abuela Adoptiva Born British and Spanish citizenship by married, she became widow ten years ago. She has four daughters and four grandchildren, two of them adopted in China. She used to be correspondent of the British newspaper of Majorca, the Majorca Daily Bulletin, during 24 years. She has taught English during 40 years. She was member of the City Council of Andratx, Majorca, between 1983 and 1987. |
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Lilia Khabibullina Universidad de Barcelona She is doing her PhD in Social and Cultural Antropology, Universitat de Barcelona (in process) with a research about international adoptions from Russia. Master in Gender Studies, Central European University, 2003-2004. Topic: Contemporary Ethical Dilemmas Concerning Assisted Reproduction: Case Study of Sex-Selection in Cataluña. She has Certificate in Women Studies from Oxford University, UK. BA in Russian and English philology, Kazan State University, 1991-1996. Lecturer of the conferences “Genere y Imigració”, organised by Generalitat de Catalunya, 2005-2006. She was archivist at the Centre for Lebanese Studies, Oxford, Teaching Assistant, Romance and German Department, Kazan State University, and Visiting Scholar, JFDP Program, Department of English, University of Hawaii, 1999-2000. |
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Caroline Legrand Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, Paris. She was Postdoctoral Fellow for a 9-months period at the Centre interuniversitaire d'études sur les lettres, les arts et les traditions, Québec. Current research Naming process in an Irish community of Quebec. Her last book is La quête de parenté. Pratiques et enjeux de la généalogie en Irlande , Presses de l'université Laval (Intercultures), 2006. Some recent articles, "Tourisme des racines et confrontations identitaires dans l'Irlande des migrations", Diasporas , histoire et societe , 2006, nº 8; "Nation, Migration and Identities in late 20th century Ireland", Narodna Umjetnost. Croatian Journal of Ethnology and Folklore Research , 2005, vol.42, nº 1, pp. 47-63, "Abandon, adoption et question des origines dans l'Irlande contemporaine", Dialogue, recherches cliniques et sociologiques sur le couple et la famille , 2003, nº 161, pp. 79-86. |
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Diana Marre
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Kathy Mason She is part-time research associate in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where she teaches on courses in Adoption: a worldwide perspective and Sociology of Health and Illness. She is also a part-time post adoption support advisor at the North East Post Adoption Service in North Shields, Tyne & Wear. Her main research is in adoption with the subject of her doctorate being Families' Experiences of Adopting from Overseas. She is currently the vice chairperson on the North Tyneside adoption panel. |
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María Adela Mondelli She is Member of the NGO Adoptar, Tucumán, Argentina. Her work focuses on psychosocial support to adoption candidates (hetero, homo and singles families). From 2002 she is the editor of the monthly VivirMejorOnline.com.ar (14.000 suscriptors). She is a Member of the Self-help Group of Women against Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse in Argentina (200 participants) She is a Founder Member (2005) of "Adoptive Parents against law, state and social discrimination of children. She was in charge (1995-2001) of the research project “Subjetividad en el encierro institucional, con personas privadas de su libertad. Ong L.A.D.H . She was lecturer of the Seminar “Social Violence”. School of Sociology, University of Buenos Aires. Program UBA XXII. (Penitenciary Universitary Center of Devoto). |
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Silvia Morell Capel She has been the Psychologist responsible and consultant at the Psychological Counselling Service of the Casal Lambda of Barcelona during the last twenty years. She is lecturer at the Master on Sexuality at the University of Barcelona. |
Esther Nolla i Miró Asociación de Madres y Padres de Gays y Lesbianas de Cataluña- AMPGIL She is the President of the Mother and Fathers of Gays and Lesbians in Catalonia (AMPGIL). |
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Françoise-Romaine Ouellette Institut National de Recherche Scientifique, Urbanisation, Culture et Société -INRSUCS, Université du Québec, Canadá She has a Ph.D degree in anthropology from Université de Montréal. She is full professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique Urbanisation, Culture et société (INRS UCS, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada). She is also the scientific director of Familles en mouvance et dynamiques intergénérationnelles , a research partnership composed of university researchers, public ministries and community groups. Her main research topic is adoption in the context of changing family norms and values. |
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Jesús Palacios He is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Sevilla, Spain. He is involved in adoption related matters at different levels. In research, he has developed programmes of research on both domestic and international adoption, with an interest as well in theory development (Brodzinsky; Palacios, Psychological issues in adoption . Wesport, CT: Praeger, 2005). In adoption practice, he has co-authored a preparation programme for prospective adopters, and has developed a set of guidelines for the home assessment. Finally, in the area of policy making, he serves as adviser for different national and regional child welfare departments, especially so in the areas of adoption and foster care. |
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Claudia Pedone She is PhD in Human Geography (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona). Researcher at Institut of Childhood and Urban World of Barcelona and Lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.. Among her last works are Estrategias y poder. 'Tú siempre jalas a los tuyos' (Abya –Yala- PMCD, 2006) and De l'Equador a Catalunya: El paper de la familia i les xarxes migratòries (Editorial Mediterrània, 2006). Her interest areas are international migrations (Latin-American), migration networks, gender relations and transnational migrations. |
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Josep Antón Rodríguez Collado He is BSc in Theology and PhD Candidate in Social Communication (Universidad Pompeu Fabra). Chief Editor of the Lambda Review and President of Casal Lambda (Non Profit Association, focus on same sex socialization). He has worked on music, theology and same sex issue. |
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Beatriz San Román Sobrino She is BC in Computing Sciences at Madrid's Universidad Complutense de Madrid, writer and scriptwriter for ludic-pedagogic exhibitions and installations. She actively participates in the CORA's (Federación de Asociaciones en Defensa de la Adopción y el Acogimiento, which bring together 19 associations of families) Education Commission. Creator of the website www.postadopcion.org which offers the first Virtual Library in Spanish on adoption issues. Adoptive mother. Author of the book La aventura de convertirse en familia. Una guía para padres (The adventure of becoming a family. A guide for parents) (Electronic Book, BIE, 2005). |
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Judith Schachter (Modell) She is Professor of Anthropology and History, Department of History, and Director of the Centre for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University. Her main research interests are child adoption, foster care, kinship, and family, and she has published two books in that area: Kinship with Strangers (Berkeley 1994) and A Sealed and Secret Kinship (Berghahn 2002), as well as a number of articles. She has published on adoption and foster care practices in Hawaii. She is currently completing a manuscript on the impact of American State and Federal policies on native Hawaiian interpretations of kinship and the family. Her interests also include visual anthropology, narratives and life-stories, and the history of anthropology. |
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Peter Selman He is Reader in Social Policy and Visiting Fellow in the School of Geography, Politics & Sociology at the University of Newcastle, UK, where he teaches courses in Comparative Social Policy and Adoption; a worldwide perspective . His main areas of research interest are child adoption, teenage pregnancy and demographic change & public policy. He is currently Chair of the Network for Intercountry Adoption and a member of the Board of Trustees of the British Agencies for Adoption & Fostering. He is author of Intercountry Adoption: Developments, Trends and Perspectives (London, BAAF, 2000) and many articles and chapters on adoption policy. |
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Elisabet Vendrell i Aubach She is a university professor on Biology. |
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Muriel Villanueva i Peranau She is a writer and music teacher. Author of Els Ulls de Rita o la tendresa del món (diari del viatge per l'adopció d'una germana) , published by the City Hall of Sagunt in 1998, as the winner of the contest “Goma de nata” of 1997 and author of the novel Mares, i si sortim de l'armari ?, published every year by Empúries in 2006, and its translation in Spanish ( Dos madres. Lumen) published the same year. |
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Toby Volkman She is Consultant for the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program. She served as Deputy Provost at The New School in New York City until December 2005, and prior to that she was the Ford Foundation's Program Officer for International and Area Studies. She also worked as Director of the South and Southeast Asia Programs at the Social Science Research Council in New York. A cultural anthropologist trained at Cornell University, she is the editor of Cultures of Transnational Adoption (Duke University Press, 2005), and the author of Feasts of Honor: Ritual and Change in the Toraja Highlands (University of Illinois, 1985). |
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Barbara Yngvesson She is Professor of Anthropology and Dean of the School of Social Science at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. Her research in the 1970s and 1980s focused on law and community in Sweden and the U.S. ( Virtuous Citizens, Disruptive Subjects: Order and Complaint in a New England Court. Routledge, 1993; Law and Community in Three American Towns , Cornell, 1994, co-authored with Carol Greenhouse and David Engel, awarded the Law and Society Association Book Prize in 1996). During the past ten years, with the support of two National Science Foundation grants, she has studied the transnational market in children, focusing on the flow of adoptable children from Asia and Latin America to Sweden and the United States. Her most recent research examines adult adoptee experiences of identity and belonging in transracial/transnational adoptions, and the implications of these experiences for theories about identity and its development in anthropology and psychology. |
