This article touched on a couple forms of migration that are usually not integrated within migration studies since they are either not included as migration (adoption) or are seen mostly through a security lens (getting papers for others through a work \u2018contract\u2019) and talked about from that perspective.<\/p>\n
I found it interesting how adoption, at least legally is not viewed as a form of migration. On one hand, I can see the argument for not placing it under that rubric, since the idea, at least legally is that of a child becomes part of a different nation. On the other hand, the exclusion of child having the ability to have access to two or more cultural, social, and political histories is difficult to comprehend. This however, is not outside the norm since we are all taught from an early age a sanitized \u2018national\u2019 of heroes and villains.<\/p>\n
It is also interesting how legality also follows social and cultural norms. In this case, the social and cultural norm of the \u2018nuclear\u2019 family is where the law rests upon, which makes the case perhaps for those that fight against universal rights since the nuclear family is not the only way to look at family. This difference makes people break or go-around the law when one decides to help another person to migrate. The work \u2018contracts\u2019 in this article present a case in point, where people that do not fit within the definition of \u2018family\u2019 are helped to migrate to Spain by people that see circumventing the law as necessary in order to help those they see as family.<\/p>\n
As we continue, we often see that the line between legal\/illegal depends on the prism. Although unlawful to bring people not directly related to a person, many times, a split takes place between what is legal and what is considered to be \u2018right\u2019 regardless of what others may think.<\/p>\n
I also found the idea of return interesting. I wondered what does a person return to? One does try to find where they were adopted, but what happens after. The case of the girl that began an NGO is an anomaly. How does a person return to place they have no memory of?<\/p>\n
The article could have gone deeper into the analysis of the people interviewed. It did not go deep enough either into how this form of migration is transnational, nor did it go far enough at the individual level as to see how it is that people that are adopted, or migrate through false work contracts are interrelated. From what I read, the links were tenuous at best.<\/p>\n
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What do you think?<\/p>\n
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