Eleana Kim

Eleana Kim, [associate professor of anthropology], at the University of California at Irvine and the author of Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging (2010), found that, between 1951 and 1964, the number of abandoned children at orphanages in South Korea grew from 715 to 11,319

For the full story, please visit https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/01/13/return-flights/

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