Current Projects

  • Adult Children of Korean Adoptees

    Adult Children of Korean Adoptees: Along with Bastiaan Flikweert, Xiang Zhou, and Richard Lee, we are starting a registry of children of Korean adoptees. We have completed interviews with 35 participants and are currently coding them.

  • Pregnancy & Childbirth

    We have conducted 41 interviews of Asian American adult adoptees who have experienced pregnancy and childbirth. We are currently in the coding phase and no longer interviewing participants.

  • Transracial Adoption Paradox

    Unraveling the transracial adoption paradox: Construction of race and racism in adoptive families; Richard Lee, Amelia Blankenau, & Adam Kim (chapter forthcoming)

  • Birthmothers

    Partnering with therapists in South Korea, we hope to conduct interviews with birthmothers who have relinquished a child for adoption.