Transnational adoptions and Life-Trajectories: a biography study of teenage and young adult adoptees living in Austria, England and Sweden
Interviews and biographical photographs from 19 young people explored identity and life paths after transnational adoption. Participants lived in Austria, England and Sweden. Analysis highlighted support within adoptive families, connections with other adoptees and changes over time in interest in adoption and cultural identity. The author developed an interpretive model to organise these life histories.
Limitations: Small qualitative sample spanning several countries and adoption backgrounds. The abstract does not separate findings for England or report the number recruited there. The model is an interpretation of interview material, not a tested causal explanation. Adoptee poetry and prose supplemented the primary interview evidence.
- Research type
- Qualitative doctoral thesis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Adolescents / Adults
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Adolescents / adults
Adoption context: Intercountry adoption
Programme: Baum-Breuer transnational adoptee life-trajectories study
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adoptee voice, identity, intercountry adoption, life course, peer support, transracial adoption
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England, Austria and Sweden
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- Adoptee involvement
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Entry: study_0cf62e3016217451