Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala: By Rachel Nolan Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024, 309 pp., $35 (hardback), ISBN: 9780674270350 (hardback).
This article focuses on the book *Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala*, which examines the surge of international adoptions from Guatemala in the 2000s, when the country became second only to China in the number of children adopted abroad. The book investigates...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 62; no. 6; pp. 1078 - 1080 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2026
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