RESOURCES ON IMMIGRATION AND ADOPTION

NPA put together the following list of resources to encourage our community to learn more and take action. There are many organizations to plug into if you’re interested in getting involved and there are many scholars, researchers and activists who are writing about this topic. Below are just a few resources we’ve found to share.

ORGANIZATIONS: Consider volunteering, attending trainings, or donating!
  • Adoptee Rights Campaign - a diverse group of intercountry adoptees and allies striving to advance adoptee rights. Current work focuses on passing the Adoptee Citizenship Act to ensure that all intercountry adoptees in the U.S. have the citizenship they should have obtained as children when they were brought into the country. http://adopteerightscampaign.org
  • Release MN 8 - local group made up of the families of the eight Cambodian Americans from Minnesota (“MN 8”) that are currently being detained by ICE and are organizing to demand the immediate release of their loved ones. https://releasemn8.tumblr.com
  • Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee - organizes the immigrant community and their allies to try to win legalization for all and equality in all aspects of life. https://mirac1.wordpress.com
  • Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota - provides immigration legal assistance to low-income immigrants and refugees in Minnesota www.ilcm.org
  • NAVIGATE MN - works with immigrant young adults facing financial, social & legal barriers to achieve their dreams through changing unjust systems. www.navigatemn.org
  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus - national organization based in San Francisco’s Chinatown and is the nation’s first legal and civil rights organization serving low-income Asian Pacific American communities. www.advancingjustice-alc.org

ARTICLES/VIDEO: Share what you learn with others!  
On Korean Adoptee Deportation/ Adoptee Citizenship Act:
On Korean Adoptees as Immigrants:
  • Choy, Catherine Ceniza. “Race at the Center: The History of American Cold War Asian Adoption.” The Journal of American East Asian Relations, Vol. 16, No. 3, Fall 2009.
  • Kim, JaeRan. “The Good Kind of Immigrants.” A Good Time for the Truth:  Race in Minnesota, edited by Sun Yung Shin. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2016, 121-135.
  • Oh, Arissa H.  “The Contradictions of Love and Commerce.” To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of Korean Adoption. Stanford University Press, 2015, 145-175.
  • Park Nelson, Kim. “Mapping Multiple Histories of Korean American Transracial Adoption.” Paper WPS 09-1 of the Working Paper Series for the U.S.-Korea Institute at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Available at http://uskoreainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ USKI_WP_0901.pdf. January, 2009.
  • Park Nelson, Kim. “Uri Nara, Our Country: Korean American Adoptees in the Global Age.” Invisible Asians:  Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism. Rutgers University Press, 2016, 150-188.
  • Yuh, Ji-Yeon.  “Moved by War: Migration, Diaspora and the Korean War.”  Journal of Asian American Studies 8(3), 277-291.  2005.
On the Travel Ban: