Defining themselves - Korean Quarterly

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Defining themselves - Korean Quarterly

Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants ~ By SunAh M. Laybourn (New York University Press, New York, 2024, ISBN #978-1-4798-1478-7) Review by Alice Stephens (Spring 2024) As the demographic age of Korean adoptees becomes older, they have assumed control of their own narrative, producing literature, media and works of art in which their own identify is defined. They have also taken control of their group’s critical legal and human…