TY - JOUR
T1 - International/Transracial adoption: A communication research agenda
AU - Galvin, K. M.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Families formed through international and transracial adoption manage challenges to family identity as they communicatively negotiate issues of race, culture, class, and gender in necessarily explicit ways. The purpose of this article is twofold. The first goal is to identify specific areas of future communication research that would explicate the processes in which these families engage. The second purpose is to illuminate similar struggles in family forms in which related issues are emerging more gradually. Specific communication-related issues focus on how families develop a sense of internal identity, how the boundaries of a family's identity are managed and defended, how socialization processes are implemented and gender paradoxes are addressed, and how family developmental processes are sustained in the face of certain stage-related challenges accompanying such adoptions. Areas of future research are identified throughout.
AB - Families formed through international and transracial adoption manage challenges to family identity as they communicatively negotiate issues of race, culture, class, and gender in necessarily explicit ways. The purpose of this article is twofold. The first goal is to identify specific areas of future communication research that would explicate the processes in which these families engage. The second purpose is to illuminate similar struggles in family forms in which related issues are emerging more gradually. Specific communication-related issues focus on how families develop a sense of internal identity, how the boundaries of a family's identity are managed and defended, how socialization processes are implemented and gender paradoxes are addressed, and how family developmental processes are sustained in the face of certain stage-related challenges accompanying such adoptions. Areas of future research are identified throughout.
U2 - 10.1207/S15327698JFC0304_5
DO - 10.1207/S15327698JFC0304_5
M3 - Article
VL - 3
SP - 237
EP - 253
JO - Journal of Family Communication
JF - Journal of Family Communication
ER -