The Usefulness of Oral Life (Hi)story to Understand and Empower: The Case of Trans-Racial Adoption
Drawing on research with transracial adoptees, this article examines the use of oral life-history interviews. It describes the research design and discusses methodological difficulties and the opportunities this approach offers for adoptees to explain their own experiences.
Limitations: This is a methodological analysis, not a new population estimate or an effectiveness trial. The abstract does not specify sample size or detailed participant characteristics. It is linked to Patel’s British transracial-adoption research; exact overlap across the thesis and journal papers has not been independently checked.
- Research type
- Empirically grounded research-methodology article
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- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
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- Age group
- Mixed
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Mixed
Adoption context: Transracial adoption
Programme: Patel British transracial adoptee life-history 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.
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Topics: adoptee voice, identity, research methodology, transracial adoption
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Country as recorded: United Kingdom (programme context; article sample detail not established)
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