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Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

Name: Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala
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Book Synopsis: The poignant saga of Guatemala’s adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession.

In 2009 Dolores Preat went to a small Maya town in Guatemala to find her birth mother. At the address retrieved from her adoption file, she was told that her supposed mother, one Rosario Colop Chim, never gave up a child for adoption—but in 1984 a girl across the street was abducted. At that house, Preat met a woman who strongly resembled her. Colop Chim, it turned out, was not Preat’s mother at all, but a jaladora—a baby broker.

Some 40,000 children, many Indigenous, were kidnapped or otherwise coercively parted from families scarred by Guatemala’s civil war or made desperate by unrelenting poverty. Amid the US-backed army’s genocide against Indigenous Maya, children were wrested from their villages and put up for adoption illegally, mostly in the United States. During the war’s second decade, adoption was privatized, overseen by lawyers who made good money matching children to overseas families. Private adoptions skyrocketed to the point where tiny Guatemala overtook giants like China and Russia as a “sender” state. Drawing on government archives, oral histories, and a rare cache of adoption files opened briefly for war crimes investigations, Rachel Nolan explores the human toll of an international industry that thrives on exploitation.

Would-be parents in rich countries have fostered a commercial market for children from poor countries, with Guatemala becoming the most extreme case. Until I Find You reckons with the hard truths of a practice that builds loving families in the Global North out of economic exploitation, endemic violence, and dislocation in the Global South.

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Discover the haunting truth behind Guatemala's adoption industry with "Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala". This heart-wrenching book takes you on a journey through the international marketplace for children, forged on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession. Author Rachel Nolan delves into the history of Guatemala's civil war, where over 40,000 children, many from Indigenous communities, were kidnapped or forcefully separated from their families. Through government archives and harrowing personal accounts, Nolan sheds light on the exploitative practices that allowed private adoptions to flourish, surpassing even countries like China and Russia. This eye-opening read, filled with gripping narratives and meticulous research, is a stark reminder of the human toll behind the commercialization of adoption.

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