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Adoptivfamiljers återresor till barnens födelseländer
Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
2020 (Swedish)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)Alternative title
Adoptive families' return trips to the children’s birth countries (English)
Abstract [sv]

Den här kvalitativa studien undersöker adoptivfamiljers återresor till barnens födelseländer. Analysmaterialet består av intervjuer med barn och föräldrar i tio svenska adoptivfamiljer både inför och efter genomförda adoptionsåterresor. I fokus för studien står frågor om hur barn och föräldrar resonerar kring beslutet att göra en återresa, planeringen av resans innehåll och upplevelserna av resan. Analyserna visar att både barn och föräldrar är delaktiga i att planera och genomföra adoptionsåterresorna. Bland annat förhandlar familjemedlemmarna om resornas inriktningar, funktioner och betydelser. Adoptionsåterresor blir till i samspel mellan barn och föräldrar, rekommendationer för återresor, förhoppningar, förutsättningar, möjligheter, risker och inte minst individuella rädslor. Studien nyanserar allmänna idéer om att en adoptionsåterresa enbart är till för adopterade och föreslår att vi behöver förstå resorna som ett gemensamt familjeprojekt. Dessutom synliggör studien att familjeadoptionsåterresor är ett resultat av dynamiska familjeprocesser som skapar och aktualiserar värden och ideal om familjeliv, föräldraskap, barn, semestrar och pengar – och att barn är en del av hur sådana värden och ideal skapas. För att fånga den komplexitet som omger familjers adoptionsåterresor har studien krävt en kombination av teorier och metoder från barn- och barndomsstudier samt familjestudier med turismvetenskaplig forskning och ekonomisk sociologi. Studien är ett resultat av förhållningssätt som tar fasta på rörligheten i begrepp som familj, barn, föräldraskap, ursprung, pengar och återresande och pekar på betydelsen av att se barn som sociala och kulturella aktörer i sin egen rätt. Avhandlingen bidrar teoretiskt och metodologiskt till forskning om adoptionsåterresor, ursprungsresor och familjesemestrar.

Abstract [en]

This qualitative study examines adoptive families’ return trips to their children’s birth countries. The empirical material consists of interviews with children and their parents in ten Swedish adoptive families, conducted both before and after their adoption return trips. The study focuses on questions relating to how children and their parents reason about the decision to conduct an adoption return trip, the planning of the trip’s content and their experiences of the trip. The analysis shows that both children and parents are involved in planning and implementing the adoption return trips. Among other things, the family members negotiate the direction, function and meaning of the trips. Adoption return trips are created in interaction between children and their parents, involving recommendations for adoption return trips, hopes, conditions, opportunities, risks and, not least, individual fears. The study challenges general ideas that adoption return trips are exclusively for the benefit of the adoptee and suggests that we need to understand these trips as a joint family project. In addition, the study shows that family adoption return trips are the result of dynamic family processes that create and actualise values and ideas about family life, parenthood, children, holidays and money – and that children are part of how such values and ideals are created. To capture the complexity that surrounds families’ adoption return trips, the study employed a combination of theories and methods from child and childhood studies and family studies with tourism research and economic sociology. The study results from an approach that addresses the fluidity of concepts such as family, children, parenthood, origins, money and return, and highlights the importance of recognising children as social and cultural actors in their own right. The dissertation contributes both theoretically and methodologically to research on adoption return trips, personal heritage trips and family holidays.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2020. , p. 105
Series
Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences, ISSN 0282-9800 ; 798
Keywords [en]
Return trips, Adoptive families, Origin, Children's perspectives, Parenthood, Family ideals, Tourism, Money, Qualitative interviews, family holiday, tourism consumption
Keywords [sv]
Återresor, Adoptivfamiljer, Ursprung, Barns perspektiv, Föräldraskap, Familjeideal, Turism, Pengar, Kvalitativa intervjuer, familjesemester, turismkonsumtion
National Category
Peace and Conflict Studies Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-171899DOI: 10.3384/diss.diva-171899ISBN: 9789179297367 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-171899DiVA, id: diva2:1509465
Public defence
2021-01-29, TEMCAS, Temahuset, Campus Valla, Linköping, 13:15 (Swedish)
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Supervisors
Available from: 2020-12-14 Created: 2020-12-14 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved
List of papers
1. Family memory trips - childrens and parents planning of adoption return trips
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Family memory trips - childrens and parents planning of adoption return trips
2020 (English)In: Journal of Heritage Tourism, ISSN 1743-873X, E-ISSN 1747-6631, Vol. 15, no 5, p. 554-566Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

It can be argued that adoption return trips are a new travel industry. Today, transnational adoptive families make adoption return trips while their children are very young. The aim of such trips is to create positive links between the child and their birth country. Based on interviews with ten Swedish transnational adoptive families, this qualitative and interdisciplinary study sets out to explore how adopted children and their parents plan return trips. The analysis shows that both children and parents mobilise memories of places, people and heritage sites from the birth countries while planning their trips. In theoretical terms, the study draws on family tourism in combination with child studies and personal memory tourism. The article challenges the idea that adoption return trips are exclusively for the benefit of the adoptee and suggests that the family planning of adoption return trips makes them into family memory trips.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2020
Keywords
Adoption return trips; family memory tourism; personal memory trips; children; transnational adoption; tourism; family holiday; tourism consumption, Turism; familjesemester; turismkonsumtion
National Category
Human Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-163758 (URN)10.1080/1743873X.2019.1702666 (DOI)000504673700001 ()
Available from: 2020-03-19 Created: 2020-03-19 Last updated: 2021-07-06
2. Adoption return trips: Family tourism and the social meanings of money
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Adoption return trips: Family tourism and the social meanings of money
2021 (English)In: Tourist Studies, ISSN 1468-7976, E-ISSN 1741-3206, Vol. 21, no 2, p. 219-234Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Through a focus on the planning and making of family adoption return trips, this paper explores how the social meanings of money are entangled with family-making practices and family holidays. Adoption return trips are a global phenomenon, and travel agencies offer tailored adoption return-trip packages marketed as a type of family tourism. The new trend towards conducting adoption return trips as a family when children are still young is growing and has implications for families’ finances because return trips are expensive endeavours. Still, families prioritise these trips, raising them above purely economic values so they stand out as ‘priceless’. The empirical material consists of interviews with 10 Swedish transnational adoptive families. The analyses show that family adoption return trips, despite their original features, are yet one more way of doing family holidaying. Money becomes an important contribution for understanding how family life is being done in and through parental, child and family-holiday ideals, as well as family intimacy. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2021
Keywords
Adoption return trips, family, children, tourism, money, family holiday, tourism consumption, Adoptionsåterresor, familj, barn, turism, pengar, turismkonsumtion, familjesemester
National Category
Peace and Conflict Studies Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-171884 (URN)10.1177/1468797620977543 (DOI)000598847000001 ()2-s2.0-85097070417 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2020-12-11 Created: 2020-12-11 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved

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