Trans-racial adoption : a study of race, identity and policy
Using oral life-history interviews, this thesis examines transracial adoptees’ racial identity and belonging. Participants described racialised difference as sometimes isolating and sometimes positive, and connected these experiences with searches for birth heritage. The thesis interprets identity as changing and negotiated rather than fixed.
Limitations: The abstract does not specify sample size, participant ages or the geographic breakdown. Qualitative accounts are not prevalence estimates. Findings are interpreted through a sociological framework.
- Research type
- Doctoral qualitative thesis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- 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.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adoptee voice, identity, race, search, transracial adoption
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Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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