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Citation

Leinaweaver JB. Am. Ethnol. 2007; 34(1): 163-180.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1525/ae.2007.34.1.163

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In this article, I draw from ethnographic research in Ayacucho, Peru, to describe how rural-to-urban migrants move children between houses as part of a common survival and betterment strategy in the context of social and economic inequality. Such “child circulations” produce and strengthen kinship and are an important part of local family-making efforts. My investigation of child circulation grounds a critical assessment of Peru's globalized adoption system, which implicitly denaturalizes the parenting of poor, indigenous Peruvians.

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