TY  - SER
AU  - Ahuriri-Driscoll, Annabel
AU  - Blake, Denise
AU  - Potter, Helen
AU  - McBreen, Kim
AU  - Mikaere, Ani
TI  - A ‘forgotten’ whakapapa : : historical narratives of Māori and closed adoption
PY  - 2022///
CY  -  
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - ADOPTION
KW  - Adoption Act 1955
KW  - COLONISATION
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - KŌRERO NEHE
KW  - MĀORI
KW  - RACISM
KW  - RANGAHAU MĀORI
KW  - TAIPŪWHENUATANGA
KW  - TE AO MĀORI
KW  - TUHINGA WHAKAPAE
KW  - WHAKAHĀWEA IWI
KW  - WHAKAPAPA
KW  - WHĀNGAI
KW  - NEW ZEALAND
N1  - Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 2022, First published online, 20 July 2022
N2  - The era of closed stranger adoption is a significant part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s social and colonial history; some 80,000 children were legally adopted between the years 1955–1985. Māori children constituted a considerable proportion of these legal adoptions, although little attention has been given to their experiences. The relative silence surrounding this phenomenon exists alongside narratives of colonisation and a professed abhorrence by Māori to closed adoption practice, producing a narrative discrepancy. This article aims to understand and account for some of the discrepancies in public narratives by providing an accurate historical account of engagement with the 1955 Adoption Act and its 1962 amendments from a Māori perspective, and unpacking the legal, political, social and cultural aspects from a historical experience. The complexities and nuances of settler colonialism are highlighted, as well as the effects for Māori adoptees of not being publicly and historically narrated – forgotten subjects. (Authors' abstract). Record #7781
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/1177083X.2022.2105725
ER  -