Catalogue by titles / Strength to Survive and Courage to Live: 18 Adoptees on Adoption
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| ISS/IRC Code | TOOL-CHILD ENG-016 |
| Partner | |
| Title | Strength to Survive and Courage to Live: 18 Adoptees on Adoption |
| Author | VON MELEN Anna |
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| General information | |
| Date published/issue | 00-00-1998 |
| Date received | 00-00-0000 |
| Place published | SWEDEN |
| Editor | |
| Publisher | The Swedish National Board for Intercountry Adoptions (NIA), box 22086, S-104 22 Stockholm, e-mail: |
| Distributor | |
| Page | 133 |
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| ISBN | |
| Type of material | Book |
| Language of document |
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| Document information | |
| Document description |
Commentaries Testimony |
| Country concerned |
SWEDEN |
| Index |
Adoptee Adoption-intercountry |
| Free text | Testimonies about how it feels to be an internationally adopted person living in Sweden. The author was adopted in Sweden from Korea. With the aim of conveying "the multiplicity of experiences and attitudes found among adoptees", she presents the experience of adoption through her own and 18 other Swedish, young adult international adoptees' testimonies which she gathered through conversations she had with each of them individually. |
| Document qualification | |
| Degree of interest | Valuable |
| Work area |
Psychology |
| Potential users | |
| Other potential users |
Adopt-Parents Children |