Since the end of World War II intercountry adoptions became an integral part of child welfare services in the United States. One of the American organizations more actively involved in this process was the National Catholic Welfare Conference and, since 1951, most part of the cases handled by this organization and by the Catholic Committee for Refugee involved minors from Italy. The massive campaign for adoptions, carried out within the American Catholic community, created a huge demand for Italian children: during Fifties and Sixties, more than 3500 of them were welcomed by US families, mostly of Italian origin, creating a sort of unusual “migration chain”.
Emigration for Adoption: The National Catholic Welfare Conference and the Adoption of Italian Children in the Unted States / S. Cassamagnaghi (PALGRAVE STUDIES IN MIGRATION HISTORY). - In: Italianness and Migration from the Risorgimento to the 1960s / [a cura di] S. Mourlane, C. Regnard, M. Martini, C. Brice. - Prima edizione. - London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. - ISBN 978-3-030-88963-0. - pp. 119-129 (( convegno L’Italie pour bagage. Migration, circulations et Italianité XIXe-XXIe siècles / With Italy in their baggage. Migration, circulations and Italianness 19th-21tst centuries tenutosi a Paris nel 2017 [10.1007/978-3-030-88964-7_10].
Emigration for Adoption: The National Catholic Welfare Conference and the Adoption of Italian Children in the Unted States
S. Cassamagnaghi
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2022
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Since the end of World War II intercountry adoptions became an integral part of child welfare services in the United States. One of the American organizations more actively involved in this process was the National Catholic Welfare Conference and, since 1951, most part of the cases handled by this organization and by the Catholic Committee for Refugee involved minors from Italy. The massive campaign for adoptions, carried out within the American Catholic community, created a huge demand for Italian children: during Fifties and Sixties, more than 3500 of them were welcomed by US families, mostly of Italian origin, creating a sort of unusual “migration chain”.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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