Abstract
Adoption, fosterage, and child exchange constitute major themes in the literature on Pacific Island societies. However, a world where the movement of people has both intensified and become more complex challenges existing approaches to the circulation of children. We examine diverse conditions of contemporary child circulation: the shift from rural to urban to international migration; the capacities of kinship systems to adapt to this change; and the significance of children's experiences in assessing the consequences of global circulation. Spanning Oceania, the subsequent five articles bring innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of child circulation, focusing on the impact global circulation has on the well-being of the youngest generation of those who move, are moved, or are left behind. This collection asks how sturdy the meanings and the practices of adoption, fosterage, and child exchange are when individuals come into the nexus of international and nation-state laws and policies.
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