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This article analyses the search strategies of first families in Bolivia contesting the separation of their children through transnational adoption. These first parents’ claims to visibility and acknowledgement have remained largely ignored by adoption policy and scholarship, historically privileging the perspectives of actors in adoptive countries, such as adoptive parents and adoption professionals.
Filling in this gap, the authors discuss the search strategies employed by first families in Bolivia who desire a reunion with their child. Drawing on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s feminist…
Child Identity Protection (CHIP) is pleased to announce the publication of the results of field research conducted by Anne-Marie Piché, Professor at the School of Social Work at the Université of Québec in Montréal (UQAM).
This research brought together the testimonies of adoption professionals (national and international) concerned with the situation of abandoned and placed children in five South American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Peru.
The aim of this study is to gain a better understanding of the…
Following three years of program implementation, SOS Children’s Villages commissioned a private consultant to complete an impact evaluation on their programming in Bolivia. The report explores the recent history of the agency’s work there and how the programming meets the larger missions and guiding principles of the agency.
The objectives of the evaluation were to
- Determine the level of impact that the SOS Social Centres programmes of the SOS Children’s Villages had had on the children, families and communities who had received the services for at least 2 years…