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The Politics of Adoption: Child Rights in the Brazilian Setting
Author(s) -
Fonseca Claudia
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9930
pISSN - 0265-8240
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9930.00134
Subject(s) - politics , ethnography , power (physics) , code (set theory) , circulation (fluid dynamics) , political science , child rights , law , law and economics , sociology , public administration , human rights , anthropology , engineering , physics , set (abstract data type) , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language , aerospace engineering
This paper, centered on adoption policy in Brazil, asks to what extent the open–ended principles apparent in international child rights accords, filtered down through different national laws, adjust to local realities. Ethnographic data on child circulation practices in urban favelas is compared with specific clauses in the 1990 Brazilian Children’s Code, as well as with adoption policies in North America, to question the code’s way of legislating which children can be placed for adoption, on what terms they should be placed, and who has the power to place them.