Introduction : The circulation of children / Laura Briggs and Diana Marre
The movement of children for international adoption : developments and trends in receiving states and states of origin, 1998-2004 / Peter Selman
International adoption : lessons from Hawaiʼi / Judith Schachter
The social temporalities of adoption and the limits of plenary adoption / Françoise-Romaine Ouellette
The desire for parenthood among lesbians and gay men / Martine Gross
Refiguring kinship in the space of adoption / Barbara Yngvesson
The transnational adoption of a related child in Québec, Canada / Chantal Collard
Baby-bearing storks : Brazilian intermediaries in the adoption process / Domingos Abreu
Transnational connections and dissenting views : the evolution of child placement policies in Brazil / Claudia Fonseca
International adoption in Russia : "market," "children for organs," and "precious" or "bad" genes / Lilia Khabibullina
The medicalization of adoption in and from Peru / Jessaca B. Leinaweaver
Children, individuality, family : discussing assisted reproductive technologies and adoption in Lithuania / Auksuolė Čepaitienė
"We do not have immigrant children at this school, we just have children adopted from abroad" : flexible understandings of children's "origins" / Diana Marre
Routes to the roots : toward an anthropology of genealogical practices / Caroline Legrand
Return journeys and the search for roots : contradictory values concerning identity / Signe Howell
Mothers for others : between friendship and the market / Anne Cadoret
Seeking sisters : twinship and kinship in an age of internet miracles and DNA technologies / Toby Alice Volkman.
