{"id":32559,"date":"2014-02-06T13:19:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T13:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32559"},"modified":"2014-02-06T13:22:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T13:22:23","slug":"multicultural-families-deracializing-transracial-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32559","title":{"rendered":"Multicultural families: Deracializing Transracial Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0261018313493160\" target=\"_blank\">Multicultural families: Deracializing Transracial Adoption<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csp.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Social Policy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/csp.sagepub.com\/content\/34\/1.toc\">Volume 34, Number 1<\/a>\u00a0(February 2014)<br \/>\npages 66-89<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0261018313493160\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0261018313493160<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lse.ac.uk\/sociology\/whoswho\/academic\/ali.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Suki Ali<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Lecturer of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>London School of Economics and Political Science<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2010, the Coalition government announced its plans for adoption reform which included \u2018removing barriers\u2019 to transracial adoption. The government has blamed social workers\u2019 looking for \u2018perfect ethnic matches\u2019 for denying black and minority ethnic children placements with \u2018loving and stable families\u2019. The paper draws upon qualitative research with professionals and parents, which shows that the government has failed to take into account the complex ways in which race and ethnicity matter within adoption. Their wish to deracialize transracial adoption fits with wider concerns about race mixing, families and national belonging in multicultural Britain. While they attempt to minimize the importance of race and ethnicity, they continue to place race at the heart of these debates.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/csp.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2013\/07\/23\/0261018313493160.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multicultural families: Deracializing Transracial Adoption Critical Social Policy Volume 34, Number 1\u00a0(February 2014) pages 66-89 DOI: 10.1177\/0261018313493160 Suki Ali, Senior Lecturer of Sociology London School of Economics and Political Science In 2010, the Coalition government announced its plans for adoption reform which included \u2018removing barriers\u2019 to transracial adoption. The government has blamed social workers\u2019 looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,4481,10],"tags":[687,3428,457],"class_list":["post-32559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-social-work","category-uk","tag-adoption","tag-critical-social-policy","tag-suki-ali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}