Overview: Presents an interdisciplinary look at adoption and ‘orphanhood’ through analysis of literature/fiction and law.Traces the stigmatizing, ‘othering’ effects chronologically across different historical eThis book critically analyses the way in which traditional sociocultural and legal biases might be perpetuated against those with unknown – or unknowable – genetic ancestries. It looks to law and works of literature across differing eras and genres focussing upon such concepts as inherited stigma, illegitimacy, orphanisation, adoption, othering, reunion, and the ‘right’ to access truths
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