Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption Paperback – March 7, 2012

This book is thorough to say the least. I enjoyed her take on transnational adoption but by page 250 had gotten the point. This book goes down the rabbit hole and never returns. A good read if you are going to write an extensive argument for about how neoliberlism plays a role in transnational adoption.

This book changed my views and gave me an insider perspective.I always recommend this book to people who are interested in ethnic, anthropology, or incarcerstion studies

Amazing book. The author deftly undermines all of the received wisdom about adoption and thoroughly analyzes the socioeconomic and political reasons that poor and disenfranchised women are compelled to surrender their children. A necessary book on a subject that is too frequently given short shrift. This reviewer can only hope that more such books follow, puncturing the myth that adoption is a solution that works for everyone.

Everyone needs to read this book but sadly most won't. This book shows how much of the discourse and politics surrounding adoption originated. It demonstrates clearly how poorer mothers and children are victimized by national and international adoption laws.

A must read!

It may be a must read, but at 27.95 it is an unaffordable read.

In an amazingly readable and engaging text, Briggs shows the ways adoption policy is shaped by most of the major issues in American society, including women's sexuality and participation in the work force, welfare policy, struggles for equality by African Americans and Native Americans, and political turmoil overseas. A white adoptive parent of a Latino daughter, Briggs is sympathetic to adoptive parents and children but clear-eyed regarding the policies that result in erasing birth parents and denying poor families the support to raise their children. It is also meticulously researched--the material on adoption and American Indians, for example, included insights and facts that were new to me, although I teach and write on law and American Indians. It's also just such a good read, completely avoiding all the jargon or deadening writing that usually characterize academic work.