Introduction / Julia Chinyere Oparah, Sun Yung Shin, Jane Jeong Trenka --
pt. 1. Where are your really from? --
Garlic and salt / Soo Na --
Love is colorblind: reflections of a mixed girl / Jeni C. Wright --
Power of the periphery / Kim Diehl --
Finding the universal: reflections on a multi-prismed identity / Mark Hagland --
pt. 2. How did you get here? --
Economic miracles / Sun Yung Shin --
Adoption myths and racial realities in the United States / Dorothy Roberts --
The finer meaning / Kimberly R. Fardy --
Parents in prison, children in crisis / Ellen M. Barry --
Orphaning the children of welfare: "crack babies", race, and adoption reform / Laura Briggs --
Shopping for children in the international marketplace / Kim Park Nelson --
Disappeared children and the adoptee as immigrant / Patrick McDermott --
pt. 3. Colonial imaginations, global migrations --
If I pull away / Shandra Spears --
Flying the coop: ICWA and the welfare of Indian children / Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, Kekek Jason Todd Stark --
From orphan trains to babylifts: colonial trafficking, empire building, and social engineering / Tobias Hübinette --
Scattered seeds: the Christian influence on Korean adoption / Jae Ran Kim --
pt. 4. Growing through the pain --
Hunger / Shannon Gibney --
Korean Psych 101: concepts of Hwa-Byung in relation to Korean adoption / Beth Kyong Lo --
Evolve / Bryan Thao Worra --
Lifelong impact, enduring need / John Raible --
From victim to survivor / Ron M. --
Tending denial / Heidi Lynn Adelsman --
Performing childhood / Rachel Quy Collier --
What lies beneath: reframing daughter from Danang / Gregory Paul Choy, Catherine Ceniza Choy --
Proud to be me / Ami Inja Nafzger --
Praise song for Ala / Julia Chinyere Oparah --
pt. 6. Speaking for ourselves --
Researching adoption: whose perspective and what issues? / Kirsten Hoo-Mi Sloth --
Beyond the Vietnam War adoptions: re-presenting our transracial lives / Indigo Williams Willing --
No longer alone in this grief: service-user-led support for transracial adoptees / Perlita Harris --
The making of KAD nation / Sunny Jo --
Generation after generation we are coming home / Sandra White Hawk.