TY  - SER
AU  - Ahuriri-Driscoll, Annabel
AU  - Blake, Denise
AU  - Dixon, Alison
TI  - The paradoxes of closed stranger adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand
PY  - 2023///
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  - Adoption Quarterly, 2023, First published, 4 January 2023
N2  - Transracial adoptees continually navigate the paradoxes of adoption, which arise in bio-normative and racialized contexts. “Being-adopted-and-Māori” was explored with 15 Māori adult adoptees. Hermeneutic phenomenological analysis revealed experiences of adoptive and racial “differentness,” centered around four key paradoxes: “as if born to”; the lived experience of transracial adoption; post-reunion biological kinship; and whaka-papa. Examining these paradoxes elucidated the discursive basis of lived and felt contradictions and ambivalence, as well as otherness and exclusion. Māori adoptee identities are considered paradoxical precisely because they disobey hegemonic discourses. Their experiences tell us how dominant discourses of adoption and identity need to change. (Author's abstract). Record #7999
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2022.2156012
ER  -