Color-blind Individualism, Intercountry Adoption and Public Policy

A prevailing ideology of color-blindness has resulted in privatizing the discourse on adoption. Color-blind individualism, the adoption arena's version of color-blind discourse, argues that race should not matter in adoption; racism can be eradicated through transracial adoption; & individual rights should be exercised without interference of the state. As privatization has increasingly dominated our world & disparities between countries have grown, so too has intercountry adoption. This paper examines the colonial aspects of intercountry adoption & implications for conceptualizing global human rights from our current emphasis on individual rights, as the real issue continues to be which children are desired by which parents. References. Adapted from the source document.