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Research focuses on the cross-comparison of both phenomena´s ( i.e. transnational adoption and immigration), revealing a disjuncture between kinship, race, class and the state. As both transformations demand us to entertain the possibility, the transnational adoptee, is a form of embodied value, not appropriated to immigrants - opening the analytical space of discussion on how similar types of migration exist as humanitarian expectations, but demand different reception.

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Fakhry, Malak
(MSc) Social Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science 09/2016

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