Conflict, Violence and Peace

Abstract

While many scholars and activists from multiple disciplines have reported on various aspects of orphan policy and the international adoption industry, there has been little synthesis of this information and its implications for global child protection. This chapter therefore puts the pieces together to argue that the misidentification of " orphans " as a category for development and humanitarian intervention has subsequently been misappropriated by many Western indi-viduals and charitable organizations. Promoting a discourse of orphan rescue,